Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 018c3a8ff2c5332e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.8 KB Created: 2022-07-18 08:53:15 +00:00 Authoring application: weavfar (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-04-08
MD5: da190a7d54b01c751b3d23f0e8441ead SHA-1: 01496d8afe07ec51cbdc2f7b841e0509d2289cd5 SHA-256: 018c3a8ff2c5332ef3332e9316238f6dde226e123bc94fae50dbd409470eb5bf
289 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0018

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • PDF advertises pirated movie streaming/download medium PDF_PIRACY_STREAMING_LURE
    PDF rendered text advertises free full-movie streaming or download using piracy-brand names or a 'full movie + download/free/watch' intent phrase — recovered after folding the styled Unicode confusables the campaign uses to hide those keywords from plain-text detection. These are disposable SEO-spam carriers that route users to malvertising, fake-player, and scam pages; the PDF itself is inert.
  • 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://find24hs.com/cassia/glucosaminoglycans/hattiesburg?U2ltYXJpcyBEZXNpZ24gNSBDcmFjawU2l=masqerade.instancesand&ZG93bmxvYWR8WEY2ZGpVemJYeDhNVFkxT0RBd05qWTVPWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA=pedagogical PDF link annotation
    • https://koshmo.com/?p=50585In PDF document text
    • https://npcfmc.com/hd-online-player-bluestacks-hd-app-player-pro-setup-0/In PDF document text
    • https://2do.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sceyush.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.netcolf.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/belimag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anticonuovo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Terrain_Plugin_For_3ds_Max_VERIFIED_Crack_Code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expertosbotox.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/HD_Online_Player_las_Aventuras_De_Tintin_1080p_Latinogolkes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repliquetees.com/advert/the-jungle-book-hindi-dubbed-movie-free-download-install/In PDF document text
    • https://www.deleksashop.com/soal-psikotes-dan-kunci-jawaban-pdf-download-work/In PDF document text
    • http://www.flyerbee.com/?p=189595In PDF document text
    • http://celebsgotnews.com/?p=4324In PDF document text
    • https://4g65.com/steinberg-virtual-guitarist-2-crack-keygen-serial-number-work/In PDF document text
    • https://fin-buro.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Cara_Hack_Admin_Group_Di_Facebookl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmallorca.com/supersoft-prophet-2006-software-with-crack-__top__-iso/In PDF document text
    • http://atmecargo.com/?p=12075In PDF document text
    • https://www.atlaspain.it/xforcekeygen32bitsrevit2011-new/In PDF document text
    • http://ulegal.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Regions_of_Ruin_Sieges_PC_Game_Free_DownloadSiMPLEX.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaxskateclub.org/2022/07/18/gear-template-generator-fix-crack/In PDF document text
    • https://www.apokoronews.gr/advert/sylenth-cracked-by-team-arcade-top/In PDF document text
    • https://idventure.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/merclave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anticonuovo.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://expertosbotox.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://ulegal.ru/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://find24hs.com/cassia/glucosaminoglycans/hattiesburg?u2ltyxjpcybezxnpz24gnsbdcmfjawu2l=masqerade.instancesand&zg93bmxvywr8wey2zgpvemjyedhnvfkxt0rbd05qwtvpwhg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda=pedagogicalIn PDF document text
    • https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/coutana-media/2022/07/Cute_FTp_8_Patch_Serial_Key_keygen.pdfIn 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00002791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2791 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000af7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF7D 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261