Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f68c7645568d196…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.8 KB Created: 2022-07-28 14:12:49 +00:00 Authoring application: nevicoli (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-04-30
MD5: e5afbf60adcde6ed0974527e9f2371fc SHA-1: 35f9eaab9b3ed0c2327e2ced582083b9980170c8 SHA-256: 8f68c7645568d1963bec7bd81feaeb7bea79a4d98bec6307fddee6e32f2ca69c
244 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0016

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.
  • PDF links to document on public blob storage high PDF_PUBLIC_BLOB_DOCUMENT_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable action to a document payload hosted on public blob/object storage. Shared object storage can be used legitimately, so this rule is suspicious rather than conclusive unless paired with lure text or other phishing indicators.
  • 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://awarefinance.com/T3B0aWNhbEZsYXJlc1Byb1ByZXNldGZyZWVkb3dubG9hZAT3B/scalping.callsend?/ZG93bmxvYWR8SHgyY0hSNWNYeDhNVFkxT0RJeE9UUTNNM3g4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA/menon/nabel.fagd PDF link annotation
    • https://www.rti-evaluation.org/toad-for-oracle-11-6-license-key-verified/In PDF document text
    • https://storage.googleapis.com/shamanic-bucket/6e4274cb-extra_quality_crackbusinessinaboxproductkeyrar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opticnervenetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Premier_Guide_For_12th_Chemistry.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energypost.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/slavdire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cad2parts.com/?p=16508In PDF document text
    • https://rwbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/bohethor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webcard.irish/sublime-text-3-5-full-repack-crack-build-3211-license-key-2020/In PDF document text
    • https://www.coursesuggest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/feliline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsarkar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Autodata_340_Ita_Download_Gratis_Torrent_PORTABLE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it-labx.ru/?p=102415In PDF document text
    • http://twinmyclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/anforos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t2tnews.com/candydoll-tv-laura-b-28-top/In PDF document text
    • https://in-loving-memory.online/4ukey-2020-updated-crack-with-serial-key-latest-4howupdated-crack/In PDF document text
    • http://angenehme-welt.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Stargate_Atlantis_COMPLETE_720p_BluRay_X264MiXED17_Extra_Quality.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecageophysics.com/2022/07/28/fallout-4-dlc-esm-files/In PDF document text
    • https://marketstory360.com/cuchoast/2022/07/Der_erste_kaiser_download_vollversion_kostenlos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lmbchealth.com/advert/super-mario-maker-wii-u-corepack/In PDF document text
    • https://www.beauteefi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Mehbooba_In_Hindi_Torrent_Download_720p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage.googleapis.com/shamanic-bucket/6e4274cb-In PDF document text
    • https://travelsarkar.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://angenehme-welt.de/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://awarefinance.com/t3b0awnhbezsyxjlc1byb1byzxnldgzyzwvkb3dubg9hzat3b/scalping.callsend?/zg93bmxvywr8shgyy0hsnwnyedhnvfkxt0rjee9uutnnm3g4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda/menon/nabel.fagdIn 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
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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00000f92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000977e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x977E 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261