Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4ca5be9458dba68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2021-05-16 21:00:19 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 534115ccda742406392a59f9a9df2151 SHA-1: aa270261eb2bac9760b35c22bd161336760892fc SHA-256: c4ca5be9458dba68c8d74ce198641c30a634c34bb436cb054c3e9f7374ffaba6
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a game hack redirect lure, pointing to a known malicious URL. It also displays a fake CAPTCHA, intended to trick the user into interacting with the malicious link. The document body contains text and a link that reinforce this lure, suggesting the primary goal is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0334

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.
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • 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-imagine-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_off000032a6.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x32A6 25976 bytes
SHA-256: 57bb7379e54e47812c45e638431275972d1fbee65b7b7aac6301b2ecf08e3d55
font_01_sfnt_off00006d6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D6E 18680 bytes
SHA-256: a55166a074bb895a998fc6ba58d68b2da5fbde3090d9bd557b4756abe288ee64

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