Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 476b7e1397c7fc53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2021-05-19 12:48:18 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: e8a781bc664f6c3d04e56733e7a57414 SHA-1: 8ba86c8e9a23f760125a3856d567f4afb45a20ab SHA-256: 476b7e1397c7fc53e69358879e0878308d825f68061d14e3bad20cb3936c83e8
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised as a "free generator / game hack" lure. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to this malicious URL. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious links and the lure indicate a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0118

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/406889139/google-coin-master-free-spins-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000345d.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x345D 23988 bytes
SHA-256: baad050a4175a5a9a3368c745c1fad202a73507d03525cc70f293f08e3755852
font_01_sfnt_off00006af7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF7 4028 bytes
SHA-256: a17c2a746d49ac23b23e38a371e32fddecfcd91b10cf42ff6155bff6b8a07e91
font_02_sfnt_off00007898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7898 2788 bytes
SHA-256: 6fd7c7f447d66842f81aa8cf197935b17f22157d0c7e9f95622df1b5b4ddf530
font_03_sfnt_off00008288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8288 18248 bytes
SHA-256: d32188c22f9df4e49535359cc17236f14c93b7b5c7ebedc8928f30f104243849