Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d710bd2484e3e13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2021-05-20 18:06:04 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: f5e93eb1563f1ef11ba057dd0692f5e2 SHA-1: df320f5b1854cbb1e2a8581ea585f301247170a6 SHA-256: 9d710bd2484e3e1369d921c7f8e06e298af764acdad1f9c74e8675c976658e82
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple links to a malicious redirector disguised as a 'free generator / game hack'. The document body explicitly includes the URL and a call-to-action phrase, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a social engineering attack.

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/431946152/free-2021-robux-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
font_00_sfnt_off00002b01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B01 26468 bytes
SHA-256: 9f1e23316b77db8363545ddf4d916cc45d973a9515cf701b85962de5b0d14d99
font_01_sfnt_off0000673e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x673E 3120 bytes
SHA-256: 49734f51977507cba6bc8d3ad0cee0363aa119856db094427deb9cf565bb7bca
font_02_sfnt_off00007251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7251 18416 bytes
SHA-256: 24dd33113ad1920a4b79572916f2875f9d05bd64d95cc44e0cd438e20c1ad4df