Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ea84c185368e5dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.7 KB Created: 2021-05-15 02:30:22 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: ebd8f2a21ab4abe79998f3539482ba7a SHA-1: e2269f042c9f54d62d1e130bb1510a9c9e3c1635 SHA-256: 1ea84c185368e5dca6f0b8ce7663496467b09b2b05caff64bf2f9fa088446eca
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically disguised as a game hack generator. The document body contains text and a button lure that encourage clicking the embedded URL. This URL leads to known malicious infrastructure, likely to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0265

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/avatar-de-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_off00003110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3110 24712 bytes
SHA-256: af4d3e36087512abf166eeef5a354efd73a77f37f56e44ea43e0646e244e5a90
font_01_sfnt_off0000696e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x696E 18400 bytes
SHA-256: a785bfb171eb12585138f1574b20515f4a3dfda3fedf06e2913ab13b2fd8376f