Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4deef41b1ff4055a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.6 KB Created: 2022-09-09 03:27:33 +00:00 Authoring application: shaolwi (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-04-29
MD5: 39a0aee0d44c8c530fb07ffeced38f2e SHA-1: 74eb89fa10676e5ba6220414fa5ffbe03dd949f5 SHA-256: 4deef41b1ff4055a4d0133a102835214d5529aefc4011a10e1d059853701485c
264 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0020

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://godsearchs.com/bachelors/nosepiece/comission/jankel/ZG93bmxvYWR8UGIwTWpVeU0zeDhNVFkyTWpZNE1ETTVNSHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA/sagne/UHJpbnQgQXJ0aXN0IFBsYXRpbnVtIHYgMjQgMCBTZXR1cCBLZXkUHJ/scottrade== PDF link annotation
    • http://www.tunlive.com/wp-content/uploads/valvyky.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menaentrepreneur.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Minecraft_110_Cracked_portable_Updatable_Online_Key_Generator_INSTALL.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knoxvilledirtdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Dead_Space_2_Crackfix_FLT.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thecryptobee.com/autodata-3-39-srpski-free-download-exclusivebfdcm/In PDF document text
    • https://nimalanisanta.shop/crysis-3-hot-crack-fix-black-screen/In PDF document text
    • https://blu-realestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Insegnare_Italiano_A_Stranieri_Diadori_Pdf_LINK_Download_1l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelsonescobar.site/?p=24346In PDF document text
    • http://www.giffa.ru/who/senemul2007-mjcoolz21-rar/In PDF document text
    • http://www.b3llaphotographyblog.com/adeko-14-hot-full-crack-software/In PDF document text
    • https://musk.sk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Agarrate_Saxo_Partitura_Pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ozcountrymile.com/advert/driver-samsung-e1205t-top/In PDF document text
    • http://financetalk.ltd/?p=30158In PDF document text
    • https://shelsyorganicstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Faceboax_Facebook_Hack_Tool_30_Free_Download103l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indiecongdr.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PATCHED_Wondershare_Photo_Collage_Studio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://entraidesfansites.flaunt.nu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Essl_Etimetrack_License_Key_Generatorbfdcm_UPD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballyhouracampervanpark.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/conbeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wwexllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/apolnan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://l1.intimlobnja.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/adobe_lightroom_cc_v51_cracked_apk_latest.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glacial-bayou-60812.herokuapp.com/Download_Fish_Bot_For_Metin2l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://progressivehealthcareindia.com/2022/09/09/full-download-viajero-by-f-sionil-jose-rar/In PDF document text
    • https://menaentrepreneur.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Minecraft_110_CrIn PDF document text
    • https://knoxvilledirtdigest.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://thecryptobee.com/autodata-3-39-srpski-free-download-In PDF document text
    • https://blu-realestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Insegnare_Italiano_A_In PDF document text
    • https://shelsyorganicstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Faceboax_FacebIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indiecongdr.it/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://entraidesfansites.flaunt.nu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Essl_EtimetraIn PDF document text
    • https://l1.intimlobnja.ru/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://glacial-In PDF document text
    • https://progressivehealthcareindia.com/2022/09/09/full-download-viajero-by-f-In PDF document text
    • http://godsearchs.com/bachelors/nosepiece/comission/jankel/zg93bmxvywr8ugiwtwpveu0zedhnvfkytwpzne1ettvnshg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda/sagne/uhjpbnqgqxj0axn0ifbsyxrpbnvtihygmjqgmcbtzxr1ccblzxkuhj/scottrade==In 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
🗂 Part of campaign: secureserver.net 1471 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000194f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x194F 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000a13b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA13B 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261