Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 029b0c7a73a3d012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.1 KB Created: 2022-08-10 13:20:43 +00:00 Authoring application: maruld (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: acd1c8a3837b14837f1545e3d6c7b94a SHA-1: 2fde30d99ffb59a19845e2e587bb257d4dfd763e SHA-256: 029b0c7a73a3d012fde90ca1b84e8b32b9eb4e88aa83676ba97fb93c797356e8
224 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0005

Heuristics 7

  • 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 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://thedirsite.com/bothe/beastly.QXV0b0NBRAQXV/telescopes/ZG93bmxvYWR8YjdDWXpkd1pYeDhNVFkyTURBNU1UQTBPSHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA/reciprocate/ronde/shrewdness...skylark PDF link annotation
    • https://superstitionsar.org/autocad-crack-free-registration-code-x64-updated-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://weilerbrand.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD-33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://descargatelo.net/?p=53498In PDF document text
    • https://ccazanzibar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD__Download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brotherskeeperint.com/2022/08/autocad-with-serial-key-free-download-for-windows/In PDF document text
    • https://obzorkuhni.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD_Registration_Code-1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackbusinessdirectories.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/diggfari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bariatric-club.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD-66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyonadime.com/?p=7793In PDF document text
    • http://www.chandabags.com/autocad-crack-download-24/In PDF document text
    • https://excitevancouver.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD-41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cennews.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD_Crack__Torrent_Free_Download_For_PC_Latest.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariana-flores-de-camino.com/mariana-flores-de-camino/autocad-crack-19/In PDF document text
    • https://demo.takewp.com/listing/tpg-explore/advert/autocad-crack-27/In PDF document text
    • https://mentorus.pl/autocad-2021-24-0-crack-5/In PDF document text
    • https://cennews.in/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://thedirsite.com/bothe/beastly.qxv0b0nbraqxv/telescopes/zg93bmxvywr8yjddwxpkd1pyedhnvfkyturbnu1uqtbpshg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda/reciprocate/ronde/shrewdness...skylarkIn 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
font_00_sfnt_off00002cd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2CD9 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000b4c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4C5 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261