Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f42bc3b74c31077b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 16:20:37 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c4c75db43f75cd95e32148dea826440b SHA-1: bc2f47909fa1325a56485c2b76f374e57ef60381 SHA-256: f42bc3b74c31077bfc75bb8aa645e844dd6cc6adc80cc7c5ee9c6920e27fd787
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document employs a lure related to 'free Robux' and 'game hacks' to entice users. It contains multiple links pointing to known malicious redirectors, such as http://netcdn.tw/app/431946152/lazyblox-com-free-robux-game-hack, which likely serve as a gateway to further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9900

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 http://netcdn.tw/app/431946152/lazyblox-com-free-robux-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/free-robux-no-human-verification-or-survey-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/roblox-hack-download_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/robux-hack-me_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/how-to-get-free-robux-without-verification_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/free-robux-obby_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/how-to-hack-into-someones-roblox-account_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/free-ways-to-get-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/minecraft-apk-free-download-016-0_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/minecraft-java-edition-redeem-code-free-2021_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilib.ulm.ac.id/pusat/repository/how-can-you-get-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000029d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x29D6 22216 bytes
SHA-256: 8438719180bfc012a18fb270ad88d3dd09c1cdc29fb2fef10d04857b6d581845
font_01_sfnt_off00005b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B5B 19024 bytes
SHA-256: 526782f1ff70328694fc7e00be18e0e67c0f7dc586f16fbbfcee2cda038cc934