Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0c946bc2ffe05ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

131.7 KB Created: 2022-06-23 23:57:09 +02:00 Authoring application: alarbald (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-05-02
MD5: 1e9d268c74ae8a69a8bd4e841e7837e0 SHA-1: 3d76cc21b8fcdab02c8552deb3bfe8d824a6f9e6 SHA-256: c0c946bc2ffe05bad43cb7df61da423d539314c40e90e47f149f903c720d9331
264 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.
  • 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://evacdir.com/ginning.ZG93bmxvYWR8S002TVc1MmZId3hOalUyTURJeE1qQTJmSHd5TlRrd2ZId29UU2tnVjI5eVpIQnlaWE56SUZ0WVRVeFNVRU1nVmpJZ1VFUkdYUQ.ceramics/U3luY292ZXJ5U3l/?encrypt=miquel PDF link annotation
    • http://palladium.bg/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/goldbell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacefather.com/andfriends/upload/files/2022/06/WaLIizNQwKxjQvVSqw4m_23_df9dafd41e7d361d079be1223607b83d_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immense-stream-34715.herokuapp.com/tribal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoburgos.com/?p=23336In PDF document text
    • https://osteocertus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/karever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iseolagohotel.it/sites/hoteliseolago.gisnet.it/files/webform/marsean982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodshape.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/files/2022/06/NQ8eGUKrXbuwslTW1yUL_23_8159614a0eb5603c0b2df0a77ecc635c_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newdurhamnh.us/sites/g/files/vyhlif3526/f/uploads/application_for_assistance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.babygotbotcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GotCLIP_Downloader_Crack_With_Key_Free_3264bit_2022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skyhave.com/upload/files/2022/06/9etGxl9Wz1aLBS3zqFHn_23_18ca46ac14921611fe501e14ef6fded0_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sweethomeslondon.com/?p=18499In PDF document text
    • https://dry-spire-75764.herokuapp.com/Rainbow_Rose_Screensaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apliquickacademy.com/vintage-strings-mkii-crack-with-registration-code-free/In PDF document text
    • https://volospress.gr/advert/private-folders-lite-crack-torrent-activation-code-win-mac-latest-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://robertasabbatini.com/avast-decryption-tool-for-szflocker-ransomware-crack-registration-code-for-pc-march-2022/In PDF document text
    • http://danapurians.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/QEye_QlikView_Data_File_Editor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymiddlevilledda.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/duckgeo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babussalam.id/backuptime-crack-keygen-latest-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://holidaygifts.review/1-click-duplicate-delete-for-files-crack-win-mac/In PDF document text
    • https://lms.igears.com.hk/ywb/blog/index.php?entryid=2465In PDF document text
    • https://spacefather.com/andfriends/upload/files/2022/06/WaLIizNQwKxjQvVSqw4m_23_df9dafd41e7d361d079be1223In PDF document text
    • https://goodshape.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/files/2022/06/NQ8eGUKrXbuwslTW1yUL_23_8159614a0eb5603c0b2df0aIn PDF document text
    • https://www.babygotbotcourses.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://www.skyhave.com/upload/files/2022/06/9etGxl9Wz1aLBS3zqFHn_23_18ca46ac14921611fe501e14ef6fded0_fileIn PDF document text
    • http://evacdir.com/ginning.zg93bmxvywr8s002tvc1mmzid3hoaluyturjee1qqtjmshd5tlrrd2zid29uu2tnvji5evpiqnlawe56suz0wvrvefnvru1nvmpjz1vfukdyuq.ceramics/u3luy292zxj5u3l/?encrypt=miquelIn 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
stream_006_off00003655.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3655 120348 bytes
SHA-256: 50c73784c3c66a979ff1ae5dd7c3088bfa1d1c6e7225a5b46316ab4b00a3df62
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D2 76772 bytes
SHA-256: 07ce6fea3c98bf59133021be55ce9147f9c26365efe580a2a4f82130ca697f54