Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30fea1cddb53a155…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2021-05-14 08:04:26 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: a08170c07d25e255ebef9a7cc4d16dd8 SHA-1: 6c6a9aff2787e9fe1945e8ac91d369ed8a828e52 SHA-256: 30fea1cddb53a155b05cb915ca9dbac51c2e052ac6ef86bc2e276de9b43b6c44
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a lure related to game hacks and free generators, linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/roblox-zone-free-robux-game-hack is the primary indicator of malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to a potentially harmful site, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0312

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/roblox-zone-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
font_00_sfnt_off000034d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x34D8 24428 bytes
SHA-256: f072c69825a6a448b1e67918bd4b4e14b61ee5f75cd1f9821e49b7d8e95a41f2
font_01_sfnt_off00006cf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF1 18180 bytes
SHA-256: fa0bfd9229dff732b79349aec0b82eb394b94074e398d1bd7575aad3963e16a1