Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade2bf02ca0c99ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2021-05-16 23:00:57 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: c7ec3d1ff40c765e2a5cbdc3250be679 SHA-1: 7361c5aedca567b98ed2fb283d66d3d653a21af1 SHA-256: ade2bf02ca0c99ce33c731d08bf6ca67a153b0079bea9685ad8f6b2226352c8b
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a lure for a "Roblox Free Robux Generator" and includes a prominent link directing users to a malicious URL. This URL is flagged as a known malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded artifacts and PDF structure suggest it's designed to exploit user interest in game-related cheats to redirect them to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

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/roblox-free-robux-generator-game-hack In 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_003_off000032fa.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x32FA 26016 bytes
SHA-256: e8c7053da435d7b7646a88900ad69287f34016932c386948ea96ed2de4143898
font_01_sfnt_off00006ef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EF7 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 9bedda8babb487e8554fc45ae48be92d4657fab6cfffaa18de719644ed37071c