Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f41c6b541f2de92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2021-05-22 16:13:15 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 62f0924d76fdbde41539512d24a2d578 SHA-1: d4ea581007912cd69de08fd39d48fd7ef412cf76 SHA-256: 7f41c6b541f2de9221181c0bc9efb84f542018930120625ce5147a43baa2fe15
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to a URL associated with malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body also contains similar text and the same URL, reinforcing the lure. While no scripts were extracted, the primary function appears to be directing users to a malicious site.

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/406889139/free-spins-for-coin-master-2021-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
stream_002_off000029c4.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x29C4 24324 bytes
SHA-256: a417c74d9cdcc482f638491f95c179c027cc053e2facbcbb495458e50dda86e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000619d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x619D 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 66febbde5b4b2b6a44609229e8681f3f0581fff3ed5f82ed8e3d83342858c217