Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a1e923987ac7d47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2021-05-16 14:30:16 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 077da6d9f45138448b48e3673f4642e6 SHA-1: 63b3063ae4cfdc8704d0960692bbb847ec949077 SHA-256: 8a1e923987ac7d477c6479ad20ef00d2d95e0b06e05996648c588e8f07ba1809
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple links to a known malicious redirector, masquerading as a 'free generator' or 'game hack' for Roblox. The document body explicitly contains the lure text and the malicious URL. The presence of embedded URLs and the specific heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing attempt designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0306

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/can-you-get-free-robux-on-roblox-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
font_00_sfnt_off00003075.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3075 25120 bytes
SHA-256: 5153a8b3aa536b73596b27c1223ce14d72381ca18618db3e24911dc7fbec7de0
font_01_sfnt_off00006835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6835 18580 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0c29456045ba8700eeeb9b5d08ef238a74b3c73615dbb1a220be23830403a6