Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc1fbcb70b930d96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2021-05-16 04:00:09 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 42059dd9e07d3421c113f4187978b4ea SHA-1: 7ecc6604236348f36da38f4107eb3c4083763d5e SHA-256: cc1fbcb70b930d966cc054c9bbdfeacdf9e4283529692d173208d7fba34a9d87
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, impersonating Facebook to lure users with a 'Free Robux Hack' offer. The embedded URL leads to known malicious infrastructure, indicating a likely credential phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the document body and heuristics strongly suggest a social engineering attack.

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.
  • 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/431946152/free-robux-hack-no-human-verification-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/431946152/free-robux-hack-no-human-verification-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_off00003256.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3256 29484 bytes
SHA-256: 1c7242e016e3578564f6d69a896a27bd7c7787b25f862a91fe4a30c8dde8011c
font_01_sfnt_off00007335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7335 19028 bytes
SHA-256: 768a4e91d7c3975acc2b79a699acb909e0f8bbf2befa87684aa1b4f9aecc197e

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