MALICIOUS
270
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File
The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirector lure, specifically pointing to a URL that appears to be part of a social engineering attack. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Minecraft Free Ios 2021' and a 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MINECRAFT GENERATOR' call to action, reinforcing the lure. The presence of fake CAPTCHA and ClickFix heuristics indicates the document is designed to trick the user into executing commands, likely to download and run a second-stage payload.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334
Heuristics 7
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PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector critical PDF_GAME_HACK_REDIRECT_LUREPDF'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.
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PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINKPDF 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.
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Fake CAPTCHA with command-running instructions critical SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA_CLICKFIXDocument combines fake CAPTCHA or human-verification language with instructions to paste or run a command — a high-confidence ClickFix pattern
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ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIXDocument instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
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Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHADocument displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
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Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTONDocument contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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/minecraft-free-ios-2021-game-hack In PDF document text
- https://sigmaclient.info#2In PDF document text
- https://flux.today#3In PDF document text
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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stream_003_off0000372a.bin |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x372A | 25384 bytes |
SHA-256: 54405e3e53e1f6e09a7681781e1164143c58a6ce27203e6236a7b4e4f11e9186 |
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font_01_sfnt_off000070ca.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70CA | 18112 bytes |
SHA-256: b55c1404a277e69c847ae3cf6ace6563469f03eb0031cfae1db94f462975a683 |
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