Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b609dec73770aaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2021-05-14 16:34:43 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 12f2923c8a6b9387a7405ccb9c845bca SHA-1: 84d0be7948f08899082df154f9d544a1b8cd275d SHA-256: 2b609dec73770aaa6a9086b7792c7b300cfc9ec64ff46d0915c48b08c9bcb842
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to a malicious URL. It also exhibits a fake CAPTCHA heuristic, designed to trick users into interacting with the document. 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 0.0334

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • 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/www-roblox-com-free-robux-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
stream_003_off000034e2.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34E2 25192 bytes
SHA-256: 42c5ef05f6294555c846ac584b487d0ee7645eccc52ef73c2cdc1cd7e71c47c9
font_01_sfnt_off00006efd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EFD 18708 bytes
SHA-256: 62c028800c68fb05578d3bf96b402573c397accdba69624e3c020ffc1692f811