Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96684ae954ed4f24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2021-05-12 03:57:53 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 8d0a7a467dcf575dc0d7c4fda5ad2ae7 SHA-1: 2ba03df1707d5168740bc205448c29f6e000dc2f SHA-256: 96684ae954ed4f24935d04b68511078847e87d8e4730a2984b58eccba4ca4fc0
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure for a "Minecraft Free Trial" and "game hack" which redirects to a known malicious URL. This suggests a phishing or social engineering attack aimed at tricking users into visiting a compromised site. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure indicate an attempt to exploit user interest for malicious purposes, potentially leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0312

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-free-trial-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_003_off00003609.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3609 25556 bytes
SHA-256: 143cdd569fea9d0f9cc3048a58f71c961be25c9ef2934b187278db83fdb833b4
font_01_sfnt_off00006fe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE0 17644 bytes
SHA-256: eaa999d9fcd0e41c3411a6787ff304b3b9a642a81f97c4ae06503d53e3265cce

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