Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9fd05975d437d19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2021-05-13 12:05:17 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: df89930644cb0f593f0036a45fdc52b7 SHA-1: f3e699b85d12b8f2135f5db2daa216f484d9159a SHA-256: f9fd05975d437d193c845f156deac2e2306bd58aa77b94d1b0a9b962535ea18e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious domain, masquerading as a 'free Robux generator'. This is a common social engineering tactic to trick users into visiting potentially harmful websites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5533

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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-generator-without-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_002_off00002bf9.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2BF9 26236 bytes
SHA-256: affd260343f6c5b9d2134af805fee146cf7779ad9fd135b360b26c61eb90c1a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000688d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x688D 7420 bytes
SHA-256: 0b188308ab0e7ffce9913d63d697a586f2937cafc51a771db38e3a566cd37e24