Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7f5aa80b9782c42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2021-05-20 22:34:21 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 75b95d1ffd15482befddc84eb92d9708 SHA-1: 23405eefea7b2a5652db2f5e47334c8fa896ae27 SHA-256: a7f5aa80b9782c42d0190d496c3b0d047808c2016cf5fcd19a8e33e1da9973f7
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to known malicious redirectors, disguised as "free generator / game hack" lures. The document body and embedded links suggest a phishing attempt to trick users into visiting malicious websites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9447

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-roblox-accounts-2021-with-robux-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://www.rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/websites-that-give-you-free-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/free-robux-com-2021_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/coin-master-hack-2021-apk-download_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/archery-master-3d-unlimited-coins-hack_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/how-to-hack-roblox-accounts-passwords_GM431946152.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
font_00_sfnt_off0000373a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x373A 24712 bytes
SHA-256: 44622d00e999dfd0d79cd0e626f5294a1372907f8c72f4706d24e328ae3218ae
font_01_sfnt_off00006fae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FAE 19076 bytes
SHA-256: a3899638bf51e335cbc40673d1471e0832e9a39f88469ef4ed0809ba61e6f618