Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac7e8218b76ceb15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-07-09 04:40:28 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 4c79833e3a8ac921c5ff1117aa6bd868 SHA-1: 6d0bd9ef7ae4c255d700c19602de24e04609d0ef SHA-256: ac7e8218b76ceb153689683b048c1190f6be889f02d2b60f3f58fcb0f4a96e6e
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically advertising a 'free generator / game hack'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirector links strongly suggests an attempt to lead the user to a phishing or malware download site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0139

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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 http://netcdn.tw/app/1330123889/carding-for-pubg-uc-game-hack In PDF document text