Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b01230b8e1fa93f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2021-05-21 12:02:05 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: fdf12fc71d1cd9451ab1b2d027209f6d SHA-1: e1217ccf99adaef27a70eceb25382f188451e0bf SHA-256: 6b01230b8e1fa93f19c60ce1fa7d03bec72e7fc67818a43d402137b97e481e65
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, masquerading as game hacks or generators for popular games like Minecraft and Coin Master. The heuristic firings indicate these links are part of a known malicious redirector chain. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to exploit users through social engineering, likely leading to further malware downloads or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8060

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/minecraft-free-minecoins-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://elmin3jkt.com/__statics/gudangsoal/files/coin-master-daily-free-spins-link-app_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmin3jkt.com/__statics/gudangsoal/files/coin-master-free-spins-link-2021-march_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmin3jkt.com/__statics/gudangsoal/files/rbxcity-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmin3jkt.com/__statics/gudangsoal/files/coin-master-hack-online-pc_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmin3jkt.com/__statics/gudangsoal/files/free-coin-master-coins_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.freenom.comHeyIn 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
stream_002_off000034ae.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34AE 24796 bytes
SHA-256: 93ab903a3847309f0f3d1c4e2a9b5cd029881a065e2b1823665330b525b3eaae
font_01_sfnt_off00006cf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CF8 2892 bytes
SHA-256: c2578a292634a901613c1dd9f9883dd4930e6811e59ae03d696f263e56ea17b4
font_02_sfnt_off000076e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76E2 17712 bytes
SHA-256: 84922fa40070066ef4f1a201e85f9de45244526ee00faa1dc92053ed0f889265