Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6976afcb463ac85f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 13:22:55 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: f59e6defdea6cf11e81a8fd99ff9fbff SHA-1: 58e19f57ad6300521ccf70d687e93ac47eba514d SHA-256: 6976afcb463ac85f9eadaad3f7251ffa9d3d1ca659bfa77d70d1e07d465d62f8
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it links to a malicious redirector, specifically advertising a 'free generator / game hack' for Minecraft. The document body includes a prominent "CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MINECRAFT GENERATOR" call to action, reinforcing the lure. The embedded URL directs to known malicious infrastructure, likely serving as a lure for users to download further malware or be redirected to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0078

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 http://netcdn.tw/app/479516143/minecraft-free-download-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00001e08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E08 22796 bytes
SHA-256: 10e4356fdfe78c312e562f95a945724900207d855e4f788686a1626d0b42e88e
font_01_sfnt_off00005146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5146 2940 bytes
SHA-256: eb230542719c96b42e3fd8bb01e35f13ebd5f02629049da3a58e7fd7607bf48a
font_02_sfnt_off00005b55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B55 18292 bytes
SHA-256: eff5919d985126b8591bb7cd3dea6a103dcf6f67049ada279646be2986fdbf31

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