Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 274d5484f39b0ce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2021-05-21 15:40:33 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 5d85d7a59bca8231723c317f7a93743a SHA-1: ac1362ab4c50f7824837cfd5606ff75e3c80db8a SHA-256: 274d5484f39b0ce978938c0d3c78548fd6831a41d278e06b2a866d5982972b80
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to known malicious redirectors and lures related to game hacks and free currency. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains phrases like 'Is Minecraft Education Edition Free' and 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MINECRAFT GENERATOR S?', reinforcing the lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9492

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/479516143/is-minecraft-education-edition-free-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://www.wetotravels.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-to-get-free-robux-without-verification-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wetotravels.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-spins-moonactive_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wetotravels.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-spins-16-04-19_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wetotravels.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-game-free-spin-download_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wetotravels.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-hack-tool-india_GM406889139.pdfIn 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
stream_002_off000035b3.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x35B3 24684 bytes
SHA-256: c1b9a172aa9b57e5f70b2867178763e95114c7a67931c8f10e6550f1e1d74788
font_01_sfnt_off00006dcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DCB 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 860599eb2378c11ce9f069b8b1214934614c40beead093e3b25ec1c42f286d72