Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e990e81ebf9df0b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2021-06-03 14:21:03 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ba799efe816c6c79b7f9a8c5b6db38ee SHA-1: a9e8540301f4e5f55fdc5c8d914408d6b08001ad SHA-256: e990e81ebf9df0b9eb1dd74f4130649fc65efa2a79b8b9f9c9083d9cb372a14e
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The primary lure is related to 'free game hacks' or generators, suggesting a social engineering tactic to drive traffic to these malicious links. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9797

Heuristics 5

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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.
  • 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.online/app/479516143/best-free-hacked-client-game-hack PDF link annotation
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id/repository/roblox-getting-hacked_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/how-do-you-get-free-roblox-money_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id/repository/coin-master-free-spins-and-coins-link-today_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/how-to-get-daily-free-spins-on-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/minecraft-bedrock-server-hosting-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id/repository/coin-master-free-spins-a2z-help_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/get-free-spins-in-coin-master_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/bloxpage-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id/repository/how-to-get-minecraft-bedrock-edition-on-pc-for-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id/repository/roblox-promo-code-to-get-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/robux-generator_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/7-year-old-roblox_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/roblox-robux-generator-http-freerobuxgenerator-xyz_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id/repository/coin-master-free-spins-without-human-verification_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/free-robux-generator-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/www-rubux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id//repository/coin-master-free-spins-link-today-hack_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id/repository/how-to-hack-a-minecraft-server-and-make-yourself-op_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id/repository/how-to-earn-robux-for-free-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lib.fisipumt.ac.id/repository/pubg-uc-visa-card_GM1330123889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004f96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F96 24564 bytes
SHA-256: 21bcb57fc6c3a19f31fd1809a93de9e8308953b29b110203f8938df1600b88c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000876c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x876C 2820 bytes
SHA-256: 34dd21cbcbbf8680f9624d5ddfa25e49232e6768200f74ddacb5347fd7a5f6dc
font_02_sfnt_off0000910d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x910D 18200 bytes
SHA-256: f9e1919cba188461631b4d1f41fa639bbd05523e10553c39d41e2ec7b66d941b