Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6860d0e3e115bd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2021-05-21 17:05:04 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 22c08d78211f586f271d9dc6336616bd SHA-1: 2bdbde55df5d0bc282551afb0074e6bf1709bfd7 SHA-256: a6860d0e3e115bd524d610492bfe9724afb1341333678765eb00ed099c09c471
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, masquerading as game-related generators or hacks. The primary lure URL is https://netcdn.xyz/app/406889139/coin-master-free-spins-link-today-new-2021-game-hack, which is associated with known malicious redirectors. The document body and heuristics indicate a social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking these links, likely leading to further malware downloads or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9616

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/406889139/coin-master-free-spins-link-today-new-2021-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://www.croatia-flyfishing.com/files/free-online-minecraft-server_GM479516143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://croatia-flyfishing.com/files/ways-to-get-free-robux-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.croatia-flyfishing.com/files/coin-master-free-spins-and-coins-daily-links_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.croatia-flyfishing.com/files/roblox-com-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://croatia-flyfishing.com/files/coin-master-hack-spins-android_GM406889139.pdfIn 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_002_off00003386.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3386 24440 bytes
SHA-256: a9ae6c4f4e2a7ff23881cd937159950452ce3284c3d865424c5d2d35ee94ede4
font_01_sfnt_off00006b8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B8D 18976 bytes
SHA-256: 9ab4b87832590d82aec569b9c8693c2016d5d9151569e528de1ed13ad8a1cb2c