Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dcc73d239f29637…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.7 KB Created: 2021-05-16 12:09:08 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 3b400b4156e3a92f75be922d95680e53 SHA-1: ee1a5be06f80f43d5ea4570ef59ceb66602ee336 SHA-256: 5dcc73d239f296376613ab651dd34731cb87e1df56c9f18d2a9d4a2d30321822
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains text and embedded links that promote a 'free Robux' or 'game hack' generator, which is a common lure for phishing and scamming operations. The embedded URL points to known malicious redirector infrastructure, indicating a high likelihood of leading users to malicious content or further compromise. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded links strongly suggest a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7153

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/free-robux-by-watching-ads-game-hack In PDF document text