Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 809e2f540fde419f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.0 KB Created: 2022-07-05 07:42:33 +00:00 Authoring application: shanleo (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-04-01
MD5: 2818d719b04fec3ea4ba8a0a48688e46 SHA-1: c6c15ae575d854a9d9746f875747f86151ca3ec7 SHA-256: 809e2f540fde419f01c8673a962acfab8b63eff9a426ecd3dc1184f4449bf216
264 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0010

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://emailgoal.com/ZG93bmxvYWR8VjJsT1djNWFueDhNVFkxTmprNE1UVXdOSHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA/betterhearing/QWRvYmUgUGhvdG9zaG9wIDIwMjIgKFZlcnNpb24gMjMuMS4xKQQWR/ericssons/licence.sodas=hypoalbuminemia PDF link annotation
    • https://sciencetrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sucyarm-1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consemaracademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/harjar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.disputingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_CC_2018_universal_keygen__Free_Download_For_Windows.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curriculocerto.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_CC_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damp-basin-62908.herokuapp.com/halaoll.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glacial-gorge-46605.herokuapp.com/Adobe_Photoshop_2022_Version_230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Adobe_Photoshop_2021_Version_2251_Full_Version_Free_Download_April2022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobeco.be/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/caylros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.over-scene.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_2021_version_22_Crack_Keygen___Free_Download_Final_2022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sleepy-taiga-54822.herokuapp.com/klarzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lovely-glacier-99904.herokuapp.com/nadikae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kinder-eh-04651.herokuapp.com/queeackl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hermsnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_2022_version_23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orderino.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_2021_Version_2201_Torrent_Activation_Code_March2022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4w15.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Adobe_Photoshop_2021-7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techque.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Adobe_Photoshop_2022_Version_2302_With_License_Key___Download_Latest.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frozen-temple-55098.herokuapp.com/Photoshop_2021_Version_2251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.juniperhillpta.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_2022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prelifestyles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_2021_Version_2200_With_Registration_Code_Free_For_Windows.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huarenshifu.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Photoshop_2021_Version_2210-1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blessedtimony.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Adobe_Photoshop_CS3-1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weltverbessern-lernen.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/navber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.disputingblog.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://doitory.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://www.over-scene.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://techque.xyz/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://prelifestyles.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://emailgoal.com/zg93bmxvywr8vjjst1djnwfuedhnvfkxtmprne1uvxdoshg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda/betterhearing/qwrvymugughvdg9zag9widiwmjigkfzlcnnpb24gmjmums4xkqqwr/ericssons/licence.sodas=hypoalbuminemiaIn PDF document text
    • http://www.over-scene.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/photoshop_2021_version_22_crack_keygen___free_download_final_2022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trello.com/c/Qazt8igj/57-adobe-photoshop-2021-version-2200-install-crack-with-product-key-free-2022In PDF document text
    • https://wakelet.com/wake/8Uzc2diDOoYnB7iEdjvKrIn PDF document text
    • https://wakelet.com/wake/j9-BxDltws0Re80soEuWQIn PDF document text
    • https://wakelet.com/wake/ZMm20pSboWGuCTyoi2K_hIn PDF document text
    • https://edmetukater.wixsite.com/trisunkrecan/post/adobe-photoshop-cc-2019-license-keyIn PDF document text
    • https://wakelet.com/wake/yPImw0IC1uFIoXnBVTc96In PDF document text
    • https://tingmengedepefeelv.wixsite.com/poinalpite::poinalpite:BumrEHwUBH:tingmengedepefeelvise@yahoo.com/post/adobe-photoshop-2021-version-22-1-1-keygenerator-activation-code-free-2022In PDF document text
    • https://trello.com/c/iE2o2RHU/83-photoshop-cc-full-license-2022In PDF document text
    • http://www.tcpdf.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://tingmengedepefeelv.wixsite.com/poinalpite::poinalpite:BumrEHwUBH:tingmengedepefeelvise@yahoo.com/post/aIn 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_off0000609f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x609F 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88B 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261