Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f294014c08a69f13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2021-05-10 22:00:26 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: e1d8b06514ff10b9432444dcc910364c SHA-1: 80e84f3220364018807869c5877634b2faaeb2e1 SHA-256: f294014c08a69f138767a9aa22ff08b26abf0b15f13145e0345cb7d9b3d0e596
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to a known malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains text related to 'Free Spins Coin Master Links' and a call to action to access a generator, reinforcing the lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a potentially malicious site for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0127

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector critical 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. CRITICAL on its own: the /app/<id>/<slug>-game-hack path shape is unambiguous scam infra, and the host rotates so a host-list match can't be relied on.
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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
  • 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/406889139/free-spins-coin-master-links-no-human-verification-game-hack In 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
stream_003_off000033dc.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x33DC 24792 bytes
SHA-256: 435b649cdd59a1ae34eb1867c5a4d9f334dddf14b59d7123e67368120b8e0909
font_01_sfnt_off00006d25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D25 2880 bytes
SHA-256: 10d025f04f706eb71cdda4f99784df1b9ccb52e48080e43095e0398eaef6f132
font_02_sfnt_off00007710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7710 18588 bytes
SHA-256: 5a08ca623146824177ccf371c197f16efef4c40a95708a9224bf5d86e8191d65