Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbd2edee8ba5a4ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2021-05-16 18:51:43 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 33a6f822d2249430479843d72b93b85e SHA-1: 68a3fd46667cf8a460fc990345e1a8bb7df7f581 SHA-256: fbd2edee8ba5a4adc52565e5b47b592644fd7853a64fcfe17a4f4608fb6085bb
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure for 'Minecraft Servers That Allow Hacks' and a prominent 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MINECRAFT GENERATOR' call to action. This lure directs users to a known malicious redirector URL, indicating an attempt to distribute malware or lead users to a phishing site. The document's structure and embedded content suggest it's designed to exploit user interest in obtaining game advantages to compromise their systems.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

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/479516143/minecraft-servers-that-allow-hacks-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://code.giftcards.comIn 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_off0000352c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x352C 33456 bytes
SHA-256: c48b90365389a4b5d471654a096f18e2227b59a14c3e49dc03d9f8523b1f1c72
font_01_sfnt_off000079dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79DC 18396 bytes
SHA-256: 9f0f6966d160eb4a8d7c12083ffcfddab2fd99c1ceedc8c822370871be153b2a

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