Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 136b3eb05c38fa59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2021-05-17 02:00:15 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 73fe4f8085c206032e69a97f5ce9e5c9 SHA-1: a3d784d12bc72dc160223403e0003bb7bee7dbc6 SHA-256: 136b3eb05c38fa594b3ea391e116465919d4339e1977baaa649932ef7d98c695
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to a malicious URL. The document body text and embedded artifacts also contain references to 'Free Robux Games' and a 'generator', reinforcing the phishing pretext. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and malicious URL suggest an attempt to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload.

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/431946152/free-robux-games-on-roblox-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
font_00_sfnt_off00003395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3395 27884 bytes
SHA-256: d7fc469a326a89582741ea6cad5f5445decdb6398e499ea546fe64ad8657434a
font_01_sfnt_off000070c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70C8 18576 bytes
SHA-256: 121d272924a8948b6bfdf19867642727f57edf659587de43eb46571e5003926c