Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7facfa4741135d16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2021-05-22 13:05:52 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: f7dc53d6ee0ec0d8eb0619793d18258e SHA-1: a1bb0790130a50810bc7747ca1cae79cdff0a5de SHA-256: 7facfa4741135d16e5abf046da289e591c01b11e49dc6e3a37f89012ed939bef
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack lure, linking to a known malicious redirector. The document body also contains a call-to-action phrase and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of a malicious link and lure suggests an attempt to trick the user into downloading a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0076

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-windows-10-edition-free-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
stream_002_off0000302f.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x302F 24684 bytes
SHA-256: d21b5c6b94510b6c045b97f15c4ebc432627b502dc7a628f8cd02626b83b8217
font_01_sfnt_off0000682f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x682F 2824 bytes
SHA-256: 61b3a573627d4f03d30684157e1627da3b4499cefab0fdf17b45999135b0250b
font_02_sfnt_off000071d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D5 18524 bytes
SHA-256: 0bf31bed13672a3e0ec3830f17f3a108a804d8b157495bd7936eaddb95c84b8e

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