Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98fed62f789372d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.4 KB Created: 2022-07-26 00:44:04 +00:00 Authoring application: odeason (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-07-08
MD5: e48ec954dd03c898374d711ad9e48a17 SHA-1: eab17d7f18fda8bf96f57629e451094296954c64 SHA-256: 98fed62f789372d6b275de1f56ef45f7487fc8a9b154a2263cf257f450cc9a15
224 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0017

Heuristics 7

  • 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 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://bestsmartfind.com/ZG93bmxvYWR8eGI4ZFhCellueDhNVFkxT0RJeE9EazROWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA.amply?...repulsive...formononetin&antihypertensives=RnJlZVZpbWFnZXIgdjkuMC41ICggKQRnJ PDF link annotation
    • https://mindfullymending.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Adobe_Audition_CC_2017_V1003_x64_Incl_Crack_Portable_Setup_F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testthiswebsite123.com/2022/07/26/kamal-kv-fmge-13-epub-link/In PDF document text
    • https://foodonate.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/soda_pdf_8_crack_serial_sites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecj.be/westlife-where-we-are-full-hot-album-zip/In PDF document text
    • https://wedesigngreen.com/projects/kimmy-st-petersburg-14yo-linkIn PDF document text
    • https://nanacomputer.com/fontpslolarnsp-portable/In PDF document text
    • https://www.faceauxdragons.com/advert/soluciones-libro-summer-fun-3-eso-free/In PDF document text
    • https://www.milieu-mag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Fifa12_Configexe_PORTABLE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturesensual.sexy/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/beyhelsa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siriusarchitects.com/advert/telecharger-revue-technique-gratuit-bmw-x5-updated/In PDF document text
    • https://www.hajjproperties.com/advert/space-empires-v-torrent-updated-download-pc/In PDF document text
    • https://p2p-tv.com/batman-arkham-asylum-goty-patch-fr-new/In PDF document text
    • http://nuihoney.com/eac-multi-game-multiprogram-5-7-magyar-link/In PDF document text
    • https://kenosus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Suyin_Camera_Driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autko.nl/2022/07/keymandesktop80top-crackcocaine/In PDF document text
    • http://www.shopinrockdale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Battlefield_Vietnam_Redux_Cd_Key_Crack_FULL.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yesinformation.com/cuftulti/2022/07/valevayl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.greenipcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/FIFA07RELOADED_Game_HOT.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.raven-guard.info/flac-to-mp3-converter-v4-0-4-0-serial-serial-key/In PDF document text
    • http://bestsmartfind.com/zg93bmxvywr8egi4zfhcelluedhnvfkxt0rjee9eazrowhg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda.amply?...repulsive...formononetin&antihypertensives=rnjlzvzpbwfnzxigdjkumc41icggkqrnjIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shopinrockdale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/battlefield_vietnam_redux_cd_key_crack_full.pdfIn 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_off00001ce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CE1 84792 bytes
SHA-256: c6ca10183ba31065b0c828fcf6aa1ac0a086abdb35164d2165a59777d0d46eec
font_01_sfnt_off0000a5a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5A0 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261