Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 474a00e516c580b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2021-05-21 03:32:14 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 90851fe3d8d6ec8904a37d48e9dd3ae9 SHA-1: 147073226b8aab05d906e5275947e2b420346674 SHA-256: 474a00e516c580b3f2a61b740115ffa9f2e98e084c10fb34a779e4e1e0d7485f
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to external websites that are identified as malicious redirectors, specifically promoting 'game hacks'. The document body also contains similar lures and a call to action to download a generator. The presence of these links and lures strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9447

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/how-to-get-hacks-on-minecraft-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://jenne-technik.de/images/minecraft-launcher-download-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenne-technik.de/images/minecraft-ps4-code-free_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenne-technik.de/images/minecraft-tools_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenne-technik.de/images/free-roblox-characters_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenne-technik.de/images/como-hackear-coin-master-ios_GM406889139.pdfIn 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_002_off000036f3.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x36F3 25748 bytes
SHA-256: 9c2fe349271c5b34015258e19192c0c4ee512d8f55d9eeb7ff80d7d8372022d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000711b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x711B 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 9f1e79a3b07781afcdd90921eb79530491bd6e36a063b246dd64f6dc9a4bd67a