Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02f883e4a22faf69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2021-05-17 23:32:18 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 89e690d7642d171a24c2a92a0b0aee29 SHA-1: 7e1e3847ef8f7bfd82d140920cfd12044f4e43b0 SHA-256: 02f883e4a22faf696fd849d6b9f1205521261b8f8dc8bcb0689b56f8221896ca
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack lure, which also impersonates the Facebook brand. The embedded URL leads to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. While no scripts were extracted, the document body and heuristics indicate a phishing or credential harvesting attempt via a malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/roblox-free-robux-no-human-verification-game-hack.
  • 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/431946152/roblox-free-robux-no-human-verification-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000339b.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x339B 27216 bytes
SHA-256: f00b072a9c131adcb39755eb158710b563384f398842bb9b3b8ef9c2a7af90da
font_01_sfnt_off0000723d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x723D 18932 bytes
SHA-256: 9d302b82f438100f3cf39adb1b208b926e457e77310e02e89ba7e0c774768e38

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