Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89099c2920aaf842…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2021-05-20 19:13:42 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: d6daa684cc1f14da11cecc3c2338c84e SHA-1: cc9afc7ca02c4294aa9fe983d655d9430f661f82 SHA-256: 89099c2920aaf842847eb3377e07d747cfad8ec69e17e301803b8030a02d2264
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically promoting 'free Robux' or game hacks. The document body and embedded links strongly suggest a social engineering lure to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to exploit user interest in free in-game currency or cheats, leading them to a malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9447

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/431946152/real-free-robux-codes-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://polycraft.ae/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/how-you-get-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polycraft.ae/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-food-for-pet_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polycraft.ae/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-daily-free-spins-2021_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polycraft.ae/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/coin-master-free-spins-link-blogspot-2021_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polycraft.ae/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/bloxpage-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn 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
font_00_sfnt_off00003295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3295 26040 bytes
SHA-256: 86271523dc1fdba7575a8f073f6284c81367bf7f59a0a41dba2486422d5cbccc
font_01_sfnt_off00006d6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D6B 18492 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff68d48ac5036b960fd78490347d8f271b820cb13d1967b9212c8abd8834c8c