Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acaad6378d3cc1cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2021-05-21 12:47:32 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 7b33609985d2300ed98b1ec8de75027a SHA-1: d23bd6db4f43f77e47eeb9b6091fd270d853d063 SHA-256: acaad6378d3cc1cf039facecaafab945dbba76233f315e546e4ab8d0c40d1d3e
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple links designed to impersonate brands like Microsoft and lure users with offers of game hacks or generators. These links redirect to known malicious infrastructure, indicating a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9492

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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://netcdn.xyz/app/479516143/free-online-minecraft-server-game-hack.
  • 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/free-online-minecraft-server-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://zabota-kashira.ru/images/free-spins-coin-master-legit_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabota-kashira.ru/images/hack-coin-master-download-ios_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabota-kashira.ru/images/coin-master-free-spins-link-download_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabota-kashira.ru/images/free-robux-generator-no-survey-no-download-no-human-verification_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabota-kashira.ru/images/how-to-get-free-robux-promo-codes_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
stream_002_off000034ab.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34AB 25160 bytes
SHA-256: 41e043d3d6dc4209c23f1dc217bc0e3f7946e093c15576600498230b457a5074
font_01_sfnt_off00006e9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E9E 17756 bytes
SHA-256: 14377ac3d18db81ff7447bb693ccee55c7f80471e2aeaf98ca779f1b2357c71e