Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4de88c7f5f00ab74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.5 KB Created: 2022-08-10 13:21:26 +00:00 Authoring application: marlau (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-04-29
MD5: f995f4343e13caf668e2f362540efee9 SHA-1: 957c7c9d8005cd844f858ac89838c78b3fd4d72a SHA-256: 4de88c7f5f00ab74c952ec946be76712567d98307b9363f8e325fa11c8895bc2
264 Risk Score

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://thedirsite.com/hubby/isoleucine/ZG93bmxvYWR8M0VFWXpnd2VueDhNVFkyTURBNU1UQTBPSHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA.QXV0b0NBRAQXV?choreographic=nanjing.patrimony&refractor=&stopovers= PDF link annotation
    • http://barrillos.org/2022/08/10/autocad-crack-full-version-5/In PDF document text
    • https://www.techclipse.com/autocad-crack-latest-2022-8/In PDF document text
    • http://educationalliance.org/2022/08/autocad-lifetime-activation-code-3264bit-updated-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://www.webcard.irish/autocad-crack-latest-14/In PDF document text
    • http://www.rixridy.com/?p=41762In PDF document text
    • http://jwmarine.org/autocad-19-1-crack-torrent-activation-code-for-windows-latest-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://wilsonvillecommunitysharing.org/autocad-free-win-mac-3/In PDF document text
    • https://revoltrowdyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD-8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accordwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/delezeam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saginawantiquewarehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/delmclem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atompublishing.info/autocad-activation-code-with-keygen-download-2022/In PDF document text
    • http://www.studiofratini.com/autocad-20-1-3264bit-2/In PDF document text
    • https://dornwell.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/idechri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenearthcannaceuticals.com/autocad-crack-free-13/In PDF document text
    • http://thedirsite.com/hubby/isoleucine/zg93bmxvywr8m0vfwxpnd2vuedhnvfkyturbnu1uqtbpshg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda.qxv0b0nbraqxv?choreographic=nanjing.patrimony&refractor=&stopovers=In PDF document text
    • https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.69/5z3.800.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD-28.pdf?time=1660136688In 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_off000023e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23E3 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000abcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xABCF 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261