Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e94560b2a5f6f7e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2021-05-19 22:34:49 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: b04e8be0802b51210f37ebb87f530ac7 SHA-1: c4cc8dab84062146da25ea6f1cd553a853984eef SHA-256: e94560b2a5f6f7e81b529c961cb73ab3f16b9580884fe106d74b1a0db1e67332
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a prominent link and text related to 'free premium Roblox' and 'game hack', directly linking to a suspicious URL. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt to lure users to a potentially malicious website. The presence of a download button lure and a callback lure further supports a malicious intent, likely to trick users into visiting the linked site for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector high PDF_GAME_HACK_REDIRECT_LURE
    PDF's clickable action targets a redirector of the form /app/<id>/<slug>-game-hack — the landing-page shape of a large SEO 'free spins / generator / game hack' lure family that funnels victims through rotating disposable hosts to a malware/scam payload. The multi-link variants also trip ML/link-farm rules; this catches the single-link variants that otherwise score clean.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/how-to-get-free-premium-roblox-game-hack PDF link annotation
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off000033c0.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x33C0 25052 bytes
SHA-256: e67c68a567b8cdccf1149d9ac4a39358eff8a477ce78e0d24892f32ce5f0ddc5
font_01_sfnt_off00006d88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D88 18888 bytes
SHA-256: b5a20fef57cf108902425c7fe9107080aaf47056a074752b6f70fc2176bbaa7e