Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16313199b6b522ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2021-05-13 07:30:12 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 64f24804d01fc88a4e9258528451775e SHA-1: 7db07022d1598d8fd8b5501826f2e80d669624fd SHA-256: 16313199b6b522ed2604ff4107e8a44b542c3af761ac0d96e58d43fd98168dc1
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically advertising a 'free Robux' generator or game hack. This indicates a social engineering lure designed to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely to download further malware or engage in phishing. The document body and embedded artifacts do not contain executable scripts, but the primary heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious redirector used for payload delivery.

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-no-verification-no-survey-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_off0000337c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x337C 26176 bytes
SHA-256: f2fb496d305f476cff48185636d9d1bbaa38b88a06b356e96c4f95fc85c74ac3
font_01_sfnt_off00006f8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F8E 18892 bytes
SHA-256: 71091a6cc5ee2467f7d55b23aad8276d14a961c51a29e0f15aa3bcc69cbd56da