Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0001e5a7d5f1e88c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.7 KB Created: 2022-06-11 03:38:31 +02:00 Authoring application: blanell (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-05-11
MD5: 6a3be47512322377f071da140ada5db1 SHA-1: cf95faccfe3cdfb971202c4946127caca0854b03 SHA-256: 0001e5a7d5f1e88c0d254306ad178bef5a5302cf6e13082a7257d9e3206059c8
264 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document functions as a link farm, directing users to various websites that advertise cracked software and act as download gateways. The embedded URLs, such as http://evacdir.com/theatrical.arki/ZG93bmxvYWR8bWc4TnpkamQzeDhNVFkxTkRnNU16RTVNWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA/johjima&noite?QXR0YWNoZWQgQW1pciBMZXZpbmUgRXB1YiBGaWxlQXR, are likely designed to host or redirect to malicious payloads. The document's primary purpose appears to be social engineering users into downloading potentially harmful software.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0015

Heuristics 8

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Cracked-software lure uses shortlink/download gateway critical PDF_CRACKED_SOFTWARE_SHORTLINK_LURE
    PDF visible text advertises a crack, serial number, archive, or pirated-software download and pairs it with a shortlink or encoded download gateway. This is a high-confidence social-engineering carrier for unwanted software or droppers; the PDF itself is not a parser exploit.
  • Cracked-software lure uses download-gateway redirectors high PDF_CRACKED_SOFTWARE_REDIRECTOR_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple cracked-software/keygen/serial-key lure links together with long encoded download-gateway URLs or known crack-download redirector hosts. This is stronger than generic piracy vocabulary: the document is an SEO lure that funnels users through redirect/download infrastructure commonly used for adware, unwanted software, or droppers.
  • PDF links to a cracked-software download doorway (base64-obfuscated) high PDF_CRACKED_SOFTWARE_DOWNLOAD_DOORWAY
    PDF's embedded link hides a pirated-software title as a base64 blob inside the URL path/query (and/or carries the ``download|`` doorway-template marker), rather than in visible text. This is a TCPDF-generated SEO doorway that ranks for software-piracy searches and funnels users to fake 'crack/keygen' download pages distributing adware, potentially-unwanted programs, or droppers. The base64 encoding is deliberate obfuscation to evade plaintext lure rules; the PDF itself carries no parser exploit — the risk is the linked crack-download destination.
  • PDF link farm advertises cracked/pirated software medium PDF_CRACKED_SOFTWARE_LURE
    PDF contains many clickable links whose targets use cracked-software, keygen, serial-key, or warez vocabulary. These are SEO-spam lure documents that rank for software-piracy searches and route users to fake 'crack' download pages distributing potentially-unwanted programs, adware, or droppers. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://evacdir.com/theatrical.arki/ZG93bmxvYWR8bWc4TnpkamQzeDhNVFkxTkRnNU16RTVNWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA/johjima&noite?QXR0YWNoZWQgQW1pciBMZXZpbmUgRXB1YiBGaWxlQXR PDF link annotation
    • http://rackingpro.com/?p=9217In PDF document text
    • http://jaxskateclub.org/?p=7191In PDF document text
    • https://chichiama.net/?p=40945In PDF document text
    • https://tutorizone.com/hack-fxhome-imerge-professional-1-2-0-full-drugsbabupc-portable/In PDF document text
    • https://hksdigitalhosting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CLAASPartsDocv50360HotReleaserar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silkfromvietnam.com/free-download-oxford-english-to-hindi-dictionary-in-pdf-format/In PDF document text
    • https://shoplidaire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PROMT_Professional_Expert_19_Crack_Full_TOP.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defisociety.com/mario-is-missing-peach-untold-tale-2-0-2-download-hit/In PDF document text
    • https://dunstew.com/advert/crack-idm-6-15-build-9-full/In PDF document text
    • http://antiquesanddecor.org/?p=9197In PDF document text
    • https://kinderspecial.com/blog/index.php?entryid=1836In PDF document text
    • https://mobiletrade.org/advert/windows-8-activator-k-j-v120829-rar/In PDF document text
    • https://sheltered-dusk-63522.herokuapp.com/davekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skyhave.com/upload/files/2022/06/LgtVbYosUgHTEAH6dqIv_11_23d96bb8e8d0640a9b9000a16e063c18_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverlosgatos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/siobweim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milieu-mag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/SAP20001424crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawahousingportal.com/lulowin-64-bits-descarga-gratisrar/In PDF document text
    • https://minermundo.com/advert/soundtheory-gullfoss-v1-4-0-x64-vst-vst3-aax/In PDF document text
    • https://farmaciacortesi.it/ams-greeting-card-studio-2011-portable-download-hot/In PDF document text
    • https://www.clearlakewi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IObit_Driver_Booster_310365_Multilingual_Serials.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorizone.com/hack-fxhome-imerge-professional-1-2-0-full-drugsbabupc-In PDF document text
    • https://hksdigitalhosting.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://silkfromvietnam.com/free-download-oxford-english-to-hindi-dictionary-in-pdf-In PDF document text
    • https://shoplidaire.fr/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://www.skyhave.com/upload/files/2022/06/LgtVbYosUgHTEAH6dqIv_11_23d96bbIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clearlakewi.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://evacdir.com/theatrical.arki/zg93bmxvywr8bwc4tnpkamqzedhnvfkxtkrnnu16rtvnwhg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda/johjima&noite?qxr0ywnozwqgqw1pcibmzxzpbmugrxb1yibgawxlqxrIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tcpdf.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/In PDF document text
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/schema#In PDF document text
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/property#In PDF document text
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/In PDF document text
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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off00001103.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1103 120140 bytes
SHA-256: a217f12862e0ff75203bdd4136ca0d68471050be46bb09aed5306898926ffdd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000bee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEE6 76772 bytes
SHA-256: 07ce6fea3c98bf59133021be55ce9147f9c26365efe580a2a4f82130ca697f54