Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7b2968c1249de3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2021-05-21 21:48:02 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 06502f3cad27239f42e9c07ea65a2096 SHA-1: 01b12232f0e70d099594ff6b89e44ffb73152bde SHA-256: e7b2968c1249de3dafb99918bdb47afcb34efae81bc0f9fe3c326746dabdef6a
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a lure for a 'free Minecraft account generator' which redirects to malicious infrastructure. The embedded URL and heuristic firings indicate a social engineering tactic to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful site. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0718

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/479516143/free-minecraft-account-and-password-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_002_off00002eeb.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2EEB 24428 bytes
SHA-256: 4010e87e38cc6c429294a98c4370c58dc33044b26155d54681af6146d2511190
font_01_sfnt_off0000669c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x669C 18344 bytes
SHA-256: cdc45183fd3a366ec771f9a19574e583e33f21726cf21e4bc9e9e1e7a2297661

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