Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16886d2b9bc6e788…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.9 KB Created: 2021-06-03 17:50:06 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 92ebf5ac1c5356b15fee827a6c3d9056 SHA-1: 17f046ade8b9669953facf346f8f1d7b5398d9e0 SHA-256: 16886d2b9bc6e78813d3577903c43f6cce52ad5580fda0967794238af3321562
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link disguised as a 'free generator / game hack' lure, which is a common social engineering tactic. This link directs users to a suspicious URL, likely to download a secondary payload or redirect to a phishing site. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and heuristics indicate a malicious intent to lure users to a compromised resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9111

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector high 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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.online/app/479516143/free-minecraft-server-hosting-game-hack PDF link annotation