Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01032febbe3f21c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2021-05-22 03:06:37 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: fe440fe45e555ed6437d835a02d2e0ec SHA-1: 524df4d1420ac0aedfeb06dab6566ffe54570a32 SHA-256: 01032febbe3f21c98c5d15705c9d54c273f69fcabfca67d4c4f38f0a936bfc79
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure related to 'free game hacks' and embeds a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains phrases like 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MINECRAFT GENERATOR', indicating a social engineering attempt to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure suggest an attempt to deliver a payload or redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0076

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/is-minecraft-bedrock-edition-free-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://youtuIn 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_002_off00002d74.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2D74 25440 bytes
SHA-256: 52afd036f538e09c4e1e0d7b41c334c4b8ba9c439281951eba5a8debab787254
font_01_sfnt_off000067cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67CF 3100 bytes
SHA-256: c5552fe5e80cc35669067605947e28fbf5a48c7dff5e859a4c776b2c0016719e
font_02_sfnt_off0000727b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x727B 18268 bytes
SHA-256: c81a05c902e5b7336ce3afe221fe42e1a1247b419ae57a3dec90c8cc8a9629c1

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