Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59b1a3647eb7188e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2021-05-12 21:02:02 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 67db764341f64d9850a5601c6bf4aae2 SHA-1: 239d19a2377c32be2729d3a938d82b8110c09362 SHA-256: 59b1a3647eb7188ec42355dfac1a39bcb45c1c539dc07119f7b7ab751f99c011
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a lure for a "Robux Hack Tools" generator, directing users to a URL associated with malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for further malware delivery or credential harvesting. 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 0.0334

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/robux-hack-tools-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
stream_003_off000033fe.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x33FE 27832 bytes
SHA-256: c9592d627c10dbcae1e7d4c3a878ac9a81815c35c909d6a3325209ed633d9f0f
font_01_sfnt_off000074df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74DF 18320 bytes
SHA-256: cf6d0fcc2a7c18e0ae1e84145e037068603b130caaef77e993c358e364abbe1e