Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72a389b1aa1a2d87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2021-05-22 19:48:50 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: eaa2a29817d1cb2a3ebd4788eb47bdfb SHA-1: 7ebf512aa91a4210036be32981f8d7782d3c6b9c SHA-256: 72a389b1aa1a2d8798c9137a16b929557c0bb5a41ea7ba85fa869fe336eabb4b
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to malicious redirectors, disguised as game hack generators. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic and the document body text suggest a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking these links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the links indicate an attempt to redirect the user to potentially malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7768

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/can-you-download-minecraft-for-free-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-elearning.com/userfiles/files/hack-coin-master-apk-358_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-elearning.com/userfiles/files/download-coin-master-hack-apk_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-elearning.com/userfiles/files/coin-master-hack-2021-iphone_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-elearning.com/userfiles/files/tower-of-hell-roblox-hack_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-elearning.com/userfiles/files/how-to-get-hacks-on-minecraft_GM479516143.pdfIn 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_off00003540.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3540 26020 bytes
SHA-256: 886f39198c149f3361b5ea0af61b7185cd948d6257e9044f7f880406fdd3105f
font_01_sfnt_off000070f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70F3 2984 bytes
SHA-256: e6ee280508cc8fb2a5a054dc4bef6c0b809503c5cdd06072624253bb352c2143
font_02_sfnt_off00007b38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B38 18592 bytes
SHA-256: ed5684d9a13e4aff878e16593a586bb1b0a035d61c002246dac68e4b539701c0