Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdff3df4fdce7a82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2021-05-15 06:13:19 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 28935e9fe18eaef3434f55dc1f306ec4 SHA-1: 51cfdd2f956edad3c370096c19cf5ac961aa3077 SHA-256: fdff3df4fdce7a8207505c0f97c7f20798a86f18b5f5f893352dce7f35fc8318
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure for a 'Coin Master Hack' and includes a prominent 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS COIN MASTER GENERATOR' call to action. This button links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0265

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/coin-master-hack-without-verification-2021-game-hack In 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
stream_003_off000031d2.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x31D2 24616 bytes
SHA-256: 95520a4635ce5e7eb1e39211b1e4eb504490a1ffecf07d3476c5decb384d7dd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000695c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x695C 18756 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8069b8e373c1677ee696ae61803aee5e0941708a1ef93a03d88c08535d6ef3