Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e45e03e317935c54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2021-05-10 17:05:00 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 26570151954b3ed38f16a55c57d46b1d SHA-1: 4bbce4b244c455c95f031e43a44a1b8c54b75308 SHA-256: e45e03e317935c54885b705d1d0a8806c9d524556c4627879744be93eb764419
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically targeting users with a "free generator / game hack" lure. The embedded URL, https://netcdn.xyz/app/406889139/free-spin-coin-master-iphone-game-hack, is associated with known malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains similar text and a call-to-action, reinforcing the phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0125

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/406889139/free-spin-coin-master-iphone-game-hack In PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off000036c3.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x36C3 27504 bytes
SHA-256: 5b8a2be6b99f0a1f2f270190c53d1146c5c4a77f360f79e4435d087707408eba
font_01_sfnt_off00007621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7621 2852 bytes
SHA-256: 75e243850a88f7f23bac019afe59063315618031fd802617cf35ebe7d1c3a71b
font_02_sfnt_off00007fec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FEC 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 5fb4108eeeaa79d5062a23cf640b88e54c695f2a54e3db1602082ad9a3ce4913