Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e8e5fc9427841b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.4 KB Created: 2021-05-20 22:39:09 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: d1fc2d565413578f1afe2d8f99897137 SHA-1: 14ec797e1e6b97274d67a5da33ae28dc8662bae0 SHA-256: 2e8e5fc9427841b2f0f11b6ce77440cb1e15584ccba8e3701a5c5e5e5a25db85
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack lure, linking to a known malicious redirector. The embedded URL, 'https://netcdn.xyz/app/479516143/minecraft-pe-free-download-ios-game-hack', is identified as malicious. The document body also contains this URL and a call-to-action phrase, reinforcing the phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0718

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/minecraft-pe-free-download-ios-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_off00002e4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2E4F 23968 bytes
SHA-256: 46cb1207c1702a50d07167d632868850c569d1ecc4b8b9568e650efcb9f96305
font_01_sfnt_off000064ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64ED 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 9eeecdfb23f1efa52cb61da16af6a6becaf737d5b15e06d56d5bb9cda3007ed5