Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4decba460669cec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.9 KB Created: 2022-07-29 10:11:11 +00:00 Authoring application: zbysiol (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-04-29
MD5: b2b8c86f3e0023cd8371c79c9991229d SHA-1: 969d906f1fd10aa9e80e53f172fcbdb3811c35fa SHA-256: 4decba460669cec531e6c5979e86a03c26305562ad30deae01d63ff4fc0a13ac
264 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0006

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://sitesworlds.com/YmlvbG9naWEgZ2VuZXJhbCBtYXJ0YSBjZXJ2YW50ZXMgeSBtYXJnYXJpdGEgaGVybmFuZGV6IHBkZiBkb3dubG9hZAYml?ZG93bmxvYWR8UFEyTVRodU1taDhmREUyTlRneU1UazBOek44ZkRJMU9UQjhmQ2hOS1NCWGIzSmtjSEpsYzNNZ1cxaE5URkpRUXlCV01pQlFSRVpk=cashback?barsky=fondu&microtuner PDF link annotation
    • https://voyageuroutdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Cricket_19_Free_Download_PORTABLE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webkhoacua.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/hairao.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticatracho.com/joe-joe-thomas-new-man-full-album-zip-patched/In PDF document text
    • https://lifedreamsorganizer.com/jetbrains-phpstorm-ide-4-with-keygen-serial-key-updated/In PDF document text
    • https://thegoodsreporter.com/news/internet-cracked-download-manager-universal-crack-on-hax-keygen/In PDF document text
    • https://workuccino.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/marweim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aagyardii6h.xn--p1ai/man-of-steel-2013-bluray-1080p-5-1ch-x264-ganool-install/In PDF document text
    • https://techadarsh.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/PTC_ProEngineer_Wildfire_50_M060_32bit64bittorrent_24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vamaveche2mai.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The_24_Hour_War_Download_LINK-1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volektravel.com/dungeon-siege-legends-of-aranna-no-cd-fixed-exe-repack-link/In PDF document text
    • https://www.cateringguiden.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/calbvali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexeib.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/abrylach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excitevancouver.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/usennie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radialamoladora.com/intro-maker-crack-exe-better/In PDF document text
    • https://tidmodell.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/wetchan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobiliarelariviera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Remo_Tamil_full_movie_in_hd_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vecchiosaggio.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/vyncbour.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://progressivehealthcareindia.com/2022/07/29/cine-tracer-crack-free-download-free-pc/In PDF document text
    • https://makeupshopbynaho.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bikecad_Pro_Full_Crack_BESTed_Iso_Gam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindfullymending.com/new-mac-os-��-final-cut-pro-10-4-crack-repack-free-download-january-2018-macosx/In PDF document text
    • http://sitesworlds.com/ymlvbg9nawegz2vuzxjhbcbtyxj0ysbjzxj2yw50zxmgesbtyxjnyxjpdgegagvybmfuzgv6ihbkzibkb3dubg9hzayml?zg93bmxvywr8ufeytvrodu1tadhmreuytlrneu1uazboek44zkrjmu9uqjhmq2hos1ncwgizsmtjsepsyznnz1cxae5urkpruxlcv01pqlfsrvpk=cashback?barsky=fondu&microtunerIn 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_off00001298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off00009a84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A84 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261