Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59635d83d0fe10d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2021-05-14 16:44:32 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 21f1c8ea2e0ddbb348f3cb3f7d86d4a1 SHA-1: aaa8e99708e5dd9fc5b79701ee852ba3ac1c5374 SHA-256: 59635d83d0fe10d4e62344bd982443ddd4785bb1316303331d51d209adb6b4fe
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to a malicious redirector disguised as a 'Roblox Hack App generator'. The embedded URL, https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/roblox-hack-app-game-hack, is the primary indicator of this lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the lure suggest an attempt to drive users to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0128

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-hack-app-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off000032ba.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x32BA 24672 bytes
SHA-256: 8fa1e1605e1c475efc7382e55a9dfefcf7a4f15aa60050b47f887f22db8ea8de
font_01_sfnt_off00006b3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B3E 3884 bytes
SHA-256: 40b61f8938bd710dc29dc58ba3fde91c245a6a69596ec569b4d27c769ca417cf
font_02_sfnt_off000077e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77E6 18356 bytes
SHA-256: 7cdc4109e76722f5b523df4cd1b295e2212ddbe91aca110ba626f8c95e058f26