Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3f671c57d523a69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2021-05-15 04:37:39 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 18d4d74c65515b846e214a25316bbd93 SHA-1: 09c95f76b846a02d0824899c378f4daa4c39cffa SHA-256: a3f671c57d523a69023cd834c058eea418987d78939c01a5cb7d0326e3dd5705
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a lure for a "Robux Hack Generator" and directs users to a malicious URL. It also instructs the user to copy and paste content into a command-line interface, suggesting an attempt to execute further malicious commands or scripts. The embedded URL is known to lead to malicious redirector infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0128

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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/robux-hack-generator-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
stream_003_off00003462.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3462 25508 bytes
SHA-256: 73699a77fd9a5a745c5f8b6711aa6732e2e175c080a07aabdf62d245145300ed
font_01_sfnt_off00006dc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DC7 2824 bytes
SHA-256: 94c1b019735d7e491765340abe50b2897410e2ec65ecf141c08bd9f2220897c4
font_02_sfnt_off00007776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7776 18352 bytes
SHA-256: f5433ce3dc9930d213a8e7315569ee207b9df6dd56817c97a1fb358bc14a6a3b