Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67c2eb8d0ae6c0f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2021-05-21 18:43:16 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 0e1f7ceaff5c4aa37c92ca41fdb40400 SHA-1: 967c267298db9deda80d65fd539c8000ed663272 SHA-256: 67c2eb8d0ae6c0f2eaa97cefb7a74415e9f62e804a5a9a1960485ce53cc8123b
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically advertising a 'free Minecraft accounts' generator. The document body and heuristics indicate a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking these links. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0718

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/free-minecraft-accounts-2021-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://www.youtIn PDF document text
    • https://discord.ggIn 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_off00002d8b.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2D8B 24932 bytes
SHA-256: a79c613317e109bb090bfe5f6327bae58150e614df56526294da07c05eb7ead4
font_01_sfnt_off0000663c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x663C 18252 bytes
SHA-256: a7a52ec6c2bb565f332a4905da6a686ee34bc05df98df468ad89fd298f001152