Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 296770526765579f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 06:55:25 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: ffc98f1b9bf4e2b8b9cd25711064ee0f SHA-1: d00f19798f8bcc4eeab850801f1276f8c010eb5a SHA-256: 296770526765579ffe3548aea3255efd2a8257b7d9b8d76ae55528b3157b02c2
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 known malicious URL. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest a lure for free Robux, a common theme in phishing and scam attempts. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely leading to a phishing or malware download site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0580

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 http://netcdn.tw/app/431946152/free-robux-websites-that-actually-work-2021-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_off0000234e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x234E 22072 bytes
SHA-256: 31cfba5db75bd6dd72de654106d2dd9fc0b574593cf22320c508b1e8e376f89f
font_01_sfnt_off000053f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53F6 19840 bytes
SHA-256: 415b7ee37fda4fc7e840ae839cc984cb2b4a0b95548347be2336140620e9a02b