Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac25803a81d4f3ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.4 KB Created: 2022-10-15 11:39:33 +00:00 Authoring application: banwed (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2023-12-11
MD5: 2bdbd4bb3ebdadffb623a702e394ce91 SHA-1: 4346ed15c1a79c25ae7252783475ec8deac053a4 SHA-256: ac25803a81d4f3ca09f4c1302605d5f467a777fda0d50e9f92e0299684ce8dbf
204 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0005

Heuristics 7

  • 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://starsearchtool.com/albany.dyrdek/odorize/VWxlYWQgUGhvdG8gRXhwcmVzcyA2IDAgQWN0aXZhdGlvbiBDb2RlVWx?ZG93bmxvYWR8ejZDYWpZd2NIeDhNVFkyTlRjek16ZzBNWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA&necrophobia PDF link annotation
    • https://www.webcard.irish/aadadeaadharamserialtitlesongdownload-new/In PDF document text
    • https://thelacypost.com/preteen-dark-pthc/In PDF document text
    • https://ppetn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ELOoffice_1100016_Keygen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lannews.net/advert/sugiono-metode-penelitian-kulitatif-dan-kuantitatif-pdf-top/In PDF document text
    • https://ebs.co.zw/advert/geet-gata-chal-hindi-movie-free-download-extra-quality/In PDF document text
    • https://omaamart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Ivt_Bluesoleil_803560_Crack_Serial_Keygen_TOP13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariasworlds.com/index.php/2022/10/15/toad-for-oracle-9-6-9-5-serial-key-keygen-hot/In PDF document text
    • https://thirdperspectivecapital.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/kapygabr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceofhealth.net/2022/10/15/gta-san-andreas-myth-mod-link/In PDF document text
    • https://www.hajjproperties.com/advert/photoprint10ripsoftwarecrackdownload-work/In PDF document text
    • https://omaamart.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://starsearchtool.com/albany.dyrdek/odorize/vwxlywqgughvdg8grxhwcmvzcya2idagqwn0axzhdglvbibdb2rlvwx?zg93bmxvywr8ejzdywpzd2niedhnvfkytlrjek16zzbnwhg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda&necrophobiaIn 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_off00001f94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F94 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000a780.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA780 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261