Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c909de7d093eb31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.7 KB Created: 2021-05-23 03:06:17 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: d7bc16015e97bce26da5b6f9e0e92aef SHA-1: 1dd05bf5641b68cd307109fd812627b824ffe61c SHA-256: 5c909de7d093eb31193b8916e773f0738a04283f39cf5941c21680ed474d09ea
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to redirectors and external resources, masquerading as 'game hacks' or 'free generators' to entice users. The heuristic 'PDF_GAME_HACK_REDIRECT_LURE' and the presence of multiple suspicious URLs strongly indicate a phishing or social engineering attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the document structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for further payload delivery or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9492

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-minecraft-for-free-ios-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://www.bdlh.go.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-download-for-pc_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bdlh.go.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/free-spins-coin-master-unlimited_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bdlh.go.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/how-to-hack-and-get-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bdlh.go.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roblox-promo-codes-for-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bdlh.go.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roblox-free-robux-website_GM431946152.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_off0000353d.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x353D 23924 bytes
SHA-256: 8f8376fd7f7f07deefbf06109cc2e05525f3779498c7fe8ef4fdfd002dbd3bc8
font_01_sfnt_off00006b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B78 17872 bytes
SHA-256: f310131035db742f338f230ab2c5697c5d59cc25d8943e3e3339342bb09010ba