Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36c70a8dfc8f1b71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.7 KB Created: 2021-05-16 20:36:17 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 8e68f09a9eea50891e24400fd7c66458 SHA-1: 6533b22d3c677e274d2315c8ae63df342a8f5220 SHA-256: 36c70a8dfc8f1b71ab7cbbe13f4ba8d0bb928750461d704f1225a5934c466baf
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious infrastructure, specifically advertising 'Roblox Help Free Robux' and 'game hacks'. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure designed to entice users to click on these links, which likely leads to a scam or the download of additional malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0265

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-help-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_off000031e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x31E7 25920 bytes
SHA-256: 5db45217430be57fd58a9862deed7763c0a947ea6d46dd516db222dd328b7357
font_01_sfnt_off00006a35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A35 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 4686decc205f725eac2af31d2bb610515d085fb80a4fbb870416018a21b04127