Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dee7269fa3a4535…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2021-05-19 22:35:59 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 0d27ac6bbc4aed950845b7c53b87836a SHA-1: d8f549195a98879c10d504dd0488fe6efcfb9728 SHA-256: 9dee7269fa3a45355a396cde0cf386f26e9c47ecc082de932ca82226cf915ed0
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's a lure for malicious redirects, specifically targeting users interested in game hacks or free generators. The embedded URL, https://netcdn.xyz/app/431946152/get-free-robux-2021-game-hack, is identified as a known malicious redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the document body and heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or scam attempt designed to lead the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0128

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/get-free-robux-2021-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_off000033c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x33C0 26720 bytes
SHA-256: c86de26ed46e57f2c2ba92502ae9da9a0fea9e64e39458c4677f06fb1b1049f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000708c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708C 3400 bytes
SHA-256: 4b3e0f36ad1e0c7e3ea5c178fd2b4f097d1e01575fc6a4101a8b520db34dfe07
font_02_sfnt_off00007bb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BB5 18520 bytes
SHA-256: 6fe0ff66a16b6ee6dc50657e9361d5c62c74e6da0263e26ac7f67f588141101f