Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ede48cae435ff7b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2021-05-21 00:03:43 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: b016b3152a45846cb21193e5748c492f SHA-1: a6dc5b03d74a5916cac7da5325259f30db556dbd SHA-256: ede48cae435ff7b888b6ad590c120a7f2246e372cbd5e3540933d059de9450d4
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple links to known malicious redirectors and hosts that offer 'game hacks' or generators, strongly suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of a 'CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MINECRAFT GENERATOR' call-to-action further supports this. The document's primary purpose appears to be tricking users into downloading further malicious content from these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9492

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/minecraft-hacks-game-hack In PDF document text
    • https://zd407.com/ocean_shop1/admin/upload/files/hacks-for-coin-master-game_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zd407.com/ocean_shop1/admin/upload/files/pubg-uc-free-app_GM1330123889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zd407.com/ocean_shop1/admin/upload/files/free-coin-app_GM406889139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zd407.com/ocean_shop1/admin/upload/files/lazyblocks-com-robux_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zd407.com/ocean_shop1/admin/upload/files/is-roblox-hacked_GM431946152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off000034a9.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34A9 25264 bytes
SHA-256: 721ff4d78cbd6e666e6c7c1c3361165b4c0c14454e2e4ec703c2cb2861bd437c
font_01_sfnt_off00006d4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D4E 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 0307ae1fdf286ae380d36e270ef5c992f348f7a5470d5d5ce449782a5f21d577

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