Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29c43fd4c499f0e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.3 KB Created: 2022-07-05 04:21:48 +00:00 Authoring application: yeswalt (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-05-18
MD5: baa94bfa7c1e880216b14a826cc7b688 SHA-1: 1b2a3fb61e7e3ea7ab234b0e6825e2b2d3948a20 SHA-256: 29c43fd4c499f0e8957a480665565fd0a4da1f3fc004c5fe0f4b38699f160643
224 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0006

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://bestentrypoint.com/cherdshewasart/UGhvdG9zaG9wIENTNAUGh.cltv?atherothrombotic=cottage&elia=..ZG93bmxvYWR8c3U5TmpKcGFueDhNVFkxTmprNE1UVXdOSHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA.lamiatoscana PDF link annotation
    • https://www.realvalueproducts.com/sites/realvalueproducts.com/files/webform/adobe-photoshop-cc_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delcohempco.com/2022/07/05/adobe-photoshop-cs3-mem-patch-free-for-windows/In PDF document text
    • https://hoponboardblog.com/2022/07/adobe-photoshop-2022-version-23-1-crack-activation-code-with-registration-code/In PDF document text
    • https://tgmcn.com/adobe-photoshop-keygenerator-serial-number-full-torrent-download-x64-2022/In PDF document text
    • http://zakadiconsultant.com/?p=13389In PDF document text
    • https://cameraitacina.com/en/system/files/webform/feedback/adobe-photoshop-cc-2015_19.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://josebonato.com/adobe-photoshop-2021-version-22-4-1-universal-keygen-serial-key-pc-windows-final-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aagyardii6h.xn--p1ai/adobe-photoshop-cs5-product-key-and-xforce-keygen-free-license-key-free-download-updated/In PDF document text
    • https://artienz.com/upload/files/2022/07/ECc1dn6RpjAT5S7OHLbY_05_c975c8f80fd507bbe7a33db929645cc8_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ilistbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_CC_2015_Hack_Patch___Activation_Download_X64_Updated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.veroortho.com/system/files/webform/adobe-photoshop-2022-version-2311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pickupevent.com/adobe-photoshop-2021-version-22-3-1-key-generator/In PDF document text
    • https://www.yolo.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/niojay/ottawarn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electropia.cl/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_2022_version_23_crack_exe_file__Free_Download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teraciel.com/system/files/webform/jaequar993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maltmarketing.com/advert/adobe-photoshop-2022-version-23-0-hack-latest/In PDF document text
    • https://mbshealthyliving.com/photoshop-2020-with-license-key-free-download-3264bit-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://endlessflyt.com/photoshop-2021-version-22-1-0-license-key-pc-windows-latest/In PDF document text
    • https://www.seagirt-nj.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3791/f/news/affordable_housing_settlement_agreement_-_sitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ainocafe.com/upload/files/2022/07/7pr5KtavJKit19iB5mWq_05_c975c8f80fd507bbe7a33db929645cc8_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verenigingvalouwe.nl/advert/photoshop-cc-2019-crack-keygen-with-key-free-download-2022/In PDF document text
    • http://youthclimatereport.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Adobe_Photoshop_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nashvilleopportunity.com/photoshop-2020-free/In PDF document text
    • https://mac.com.hk/advert/adobe-photoshop-2022-hack-activation-code-with-keygen-x64-latest/In PDF document text
    • http://www.filmwritten.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_2022_Version_232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koeglvertrieb.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_CC_2015_Version_18_Crack_Keygen_With_Serial_number___Activation_Code_Free_Downlo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rentbd.net/adobe-photoshop-2021-version-22-0-1-crack-file-only-full-product-key-latest-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://www.realvalueproducts.com/sites/realvalueproducts.com/files/webform/adobe-photoshop-In PDF document text
    • https://hoponboardblog.com/2022/07/adobe-photoshop-2022-version-23-1-crack-activation-code-with-In PDF document text
    • https://josebonato.com/adobe-photoshop-2021-version-22-4-1-universal-keygen-serial-key-pc-In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aagyardii6h.xn--p1ai/adobe-photoshop-cs5-product-key-and-xforce-keygen-free-license-In PDF document text
    • https://artienz.com/upload/files/2022/07/ECc1dn6RpjAT5S7OHLbY_05_c975c8f80fd507bbe7a33db92In PDF document text
    • https://www.ilistbusiness.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://electropia.cl/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://www.seagirt-In PDF document text
    • https://ainocafe.com/upload/files/2022/07/7pr5KtavJKit19iB5mWq_05_c975c8f80fd507bbe7a33db929In PDF document text
    • https://www.verenigingvalouwe.nl/advert/photoshop-cc-2019-crack-keygen-with-key-free-In PDF document text
    • https://koeglvertrieb.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_CC_2015_Version_18_Crack_KeygenIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rentbd.net/adobe-photoshop-2021-version-22-0-1-crack-file-only-full-product-key-In PDF document text
    • http://bestentrypoint.com/cherdshewasart/ughvdg9zag9wientnaugh.cltv?atherothrombotic=cottage&elia=..zg93bmxvywr8c3u5tmpkcgfuedhnvfkxtmprne1uvxdoshg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda.lamiatoscanaIn PDF document text
    • https://linguistics.washington.edu/system/files/webform/elisale798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.efca.europa.eu/es/system/files/webform/cv/morramad529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsd.az.gov/system/files/webform/physical_security/adoa_building_visitor/Adobe-Photoshop-2022-Version-2301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tcpdf.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://gsd.az.gov/system/files/webform/physical_security/adoa_building_visitor/Adobe-In 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
    +5 more URL(s)
🗂 Part of campaign: secureserver.net 1471 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00003d63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3D63 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000c54f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC54F 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261