Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fe5533311ecd4b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2021-05-19 22:38:24 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 837a794a429ad749ba1c2e2ea5f259a7 SHA-1: 1c39f8beb98f7fca3a6bf2ea9d536247d04a2eaf SHA-256: 9fe5533311ecd4b2c5e3d969ed7abd5ae429322bda89c444825019f8de378b29
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 Hack Mod' and includes a prominent call-to-action button directing users to a malicious URL. This suggests a phishing attempt designed to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful website, likely to download malware or engage in further fraudulent activity. The embedded URL is associated with known malicious redirector infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

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-hack-mod-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000355d.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x355D 25432 bytes
SHA-256: e07b20ca225af9b2063ce5058dd1b053efc4456d6635006c2360d66b97bf1fb6
font_01_sfnt_off00006f80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F80 18056 bytes
SHA-256: c98163390533840513273057c02ab8b0002c23ddfc36b9b9583c7d176bc18763

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