Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3495f0bd2ef5472b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.5 KB Created: 2022-07-18 15:57:23 +00:00 Authoring application: ginrai (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-04-01
MD5: 666b32c53af22763bdbd4d1c233af1d8 SHA-1: 08ad98810e180d5fa5ff40926c5f62117628b34e SHA-256: 3495f0bd2ef5472bf84dde35bf3971ba8db8a59ac6cc7f318b870b504ffd5b4e
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document employs a cracked software lure, directing users to download gateways. The primary URL, http://bestentrypoint.com/dumping/d2luZG93cy43LnRpdGFuLjMyIGJpdHMuZnJlbmNoLmlzbwd2l/celibate.ZG93bmxvYWR8a3k1ZVRkNU5ueDhNVFkxT0RBd05qWTVPWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA.monadnock.procuring=puntarenas.sawney.tokhtar, appears to be a base64-obfuscated download doorway. The document body contains text related to downloading Windows 7, further reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0018

Heuristics 7

  • 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://bestentrypoint.com/dumping/d2luZG93cy43LnRpdGFuLjMyIGJpdHMuZnJlbmNoLmlzbwd2l/celibate.ZG93bmxvYWR8a3k1ZVRkNU5ueDhNVFkxT0RBd05qWTVPWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA.monadnock.procuring=puntarenas.sawney.tokhtar PDF link annotation
    • https://www.spaziodentale.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/feadthor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romans12-2.org/mickey-virus-2-full-movie-with-english-subtitles-download-torrent-fixed/In PDF document text
    • https://www.shopizzo.com/cs16cheatsalias/In PDF document text
    • https://dogrywka.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Vdategames_Maddison_Walkthrough.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j-core.club/2022/07/18/lucrare-de-atestat-la-limba-engleza/In PDF document text
    • https://buycoffeemugs.com/magicsoft-cg-6-crack-__top__/In PDF document text
    • http://postbaku.info/?p=24779In PDF document text
    • https://orbeeari.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/nadyign.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.raven-guard.info/din-50961-fe-zn-pdf-extra-quality/In PDF document text
    • https://www.cnaclassnorthernva.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Jai_Maa_Vaishanav_Devi_movie_hindi_subtitle_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://squalefishing.com/advert/the-wicker-man-2006-film-torrent-fixed/In PDF document text
    • https://valentinesdaygiftguide.net/2022/07/18/sqlite-data-access-components-litedac-v3-0-2-full-source-for-delphi-patched/In PDF document text
    • https://paintsghana.com/advert/webcam-driver-umax-astrapix-pc230-free-2021-download/In PDF document text
    • http://www.chandabags.com/open-7-activator-1-2-7-by-nononsence-hotcarl-_verified_/In PDF document text
    • https://www.dominionphone.com/frets-on-fire-rock-band-songs-career-mode-hack-torrent-2/In PDF document text
    • https://gametimereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/harwpae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletstekoop.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/eliscob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oceanofcourses.com/machine-design-by-jalaluddin-108-new/In PDF document text
    • http://naturopathworld.com/?p=5407In PDF document text
    • http://trijimitraperkasa.com/?p=3647In PDF document text
    • https://www.cnaclassnorthernva.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://valentinesdaygiftguide.net/2022/07/18/sqlite-data-access-components-litedac-v3-0-2-full-In PDF document text
    • http://bestentrypoint.com/dumping/d2luzg93cy43lnrpdgfuljmyigjpdhmuznjlbmnolmlzbwd2l/celibate.zg93bmxvywr8a3k1zvrknu5uedhnvfkxt0rbd05qwtvpwhg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda.monadnock.procuring=puntarenas.sawney.tokhtarIn 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_off000023a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23A2 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ab8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB8E 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261