Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbe8f6ba99775dde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.4 KB Created: 2022-08-10 15:51:03 +00:00 Authoring application: darigaba (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-04-23
MD5: a1abb717c5f347c37de123b1851857f8 SHA-1: 895313ea409b85a2ea4d9d1ca77133b8d72b4e9a SHA-256: cbe8f6ba99775dde580089f9fa01c5e71eb885b0263fc67437ebc3e91e675a16
304 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0009

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://xtraserp.com/atoms.QXV0b0NBRAQXV/explorer?floribbean&intercessory=invacare/comfywash&knowingness=ZG93bmxvYWR8eUY1WldNM04zeDhNVFkyTURBNU1UQTBPSHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA PDF link annotation
    • http://rastadream.com/?p=64300In PDF document text
    • https://ekibinibul.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/markkell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beaches-lakesides.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD-92.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafevalentustienda.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/halheth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theccgway.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD-49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srkvilaskodaikanal.com/2022/08/10/autocad-20-0-pc/In PDF document text
    • http://lawcate.com/autocad-2021-24-0-crack-license-key-full-mac-win-latest/In PDF document text
    • https://mevoydecasa.es/autocad-24-1-crack-license-key-full-april-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://orbeeari.com/autocad-2023-24-2-crack-torrent-activation-code-free-download-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://www.slas.lk/advert/autocad-crack-with-keygen-download/In PDF document text
    • http://mycontractors.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD-56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halletabi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AutoCAD-31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitiflowers.com/autocad-crack-license-key-full-3264bit-april-2022/In PDF document text
    • https://spacebott.com/autocad-2018-22-0-crack-with-license-code-download-for-pc/In PDF document text
    • https://nashvilleopportunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/queeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtraserp.com/atoms.qxv0b0nbraqxv/explorer?floribbean&intercessory=invacare/comfywash&knowingness=zg93bmxvywr8euy1wldnm04zedhnvfkyturbnu1uqtbpshg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbdaIn 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_off00002b04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B04 84508 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7ba551bea82cc3307397981c1dbeb1b78486f95f2eb14e5e58d4e1b24edb0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F0 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261