Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 642098bd83291156…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2021-05-17 16:01:52 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: ced0eb16c1e083d34bc5a81608d6c6a2 SHA-1: a6a96b71f36038014b10d56dac65861e0dcdff6a SHA-256: 642098bd83291156136ef01b1aec49929d4dca5813d078caf74147387601f011
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains embedded links that are identified as malicious redirectors, specifically leading to a 'free generator / game hack' lure. The document body and heuristics indicate a clear intent to trick the user into clicking a call-to-action button, which then directs them to the malicious URL. This pattern is consistent with phishing or social engineering attacks designed to lead users to potentially harmful websites.

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/getrobux-now-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
font_00_sfnt_off0000317c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x317C 27696 bytes
SHA-256: 55892d50c0fe300178823bc9ee9b44e43be82e426d035f497f72001869474265
font_01_sfnt_off000070ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70EA 18120 bytes
SHA-256: de6bc5a2c3ccfe8cd092df1e0cd700ba4b2d067c0892dbade0599f643b41633a