Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d28a05d79bb04f40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.2 KB Created: 2022-10-16 19:27:48 +00:00 Authoring application: osbomin (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2023-12-11
MD5: 83a165aaa632cd3704c642243a83cd7f SHA-1: eab2a5303c61a8a19969f032fa9bbcb58a2fa773 SHA-256: d28a05d79bb04f409267ca9c88f2617bf258e816a956f00a4bd2499d146e0cf6
194 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0006

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://hardlyfind.com/genocide.cargeenan?ZG93bmxvYWR8TXkyTVROM1p6SjhmREUyTmpVM016TTROREY4ZkRJMU9UQjhmQ2hOS1NCWGIzSmtjSEpsYzNNZ1cxaE5URkpRUXlCV01pQlFSRVpk=&grain=&aWQgZmxvdyBjcmFjayBrZXlnZW4gc2VyaWFsIHBhdGNoaWQ=starteaching PDF link annotation
    • http://jameschangcpa.com/advert/dr-fone-registration-code-hot/In PDF document text
    • https://baitjadati.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/download_film_Gharwali_Baharwali_720p_movies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-mette.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CutMaster_2D_Pro_v1327_Crack_serial_keygen_cd_key42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatredaneshmarket.com/?p=137195In PDF document text
    • http://www.hacibektasdernegi.com/wp-content/uploads/Free_Ebook_Download_Pengantar_Ilmu_Pariwisata_Yoeti_Oka76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dincampinginfo.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/sadquiq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.riobrasilword.com/2022/10/16/ravish-singh-electrical-networks-ebook-free-download-free/In PDF document text
    • https://www.lacalleloiza.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/xylbar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mentorus.pl/chemical-reaction-engineering-2-by-ka-gavhane-free-download-better/In PDF document text
    • https://superstitionsar.org/fifa-16-crack-3dm-v3-cracked/In PDF document text
    • https://baitjadati.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • http://villa-mette.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CutMaster_2D_Pro_v1327_In PDF document text
    • http://www.hacibektasdernegi.com/wp-content/uploads/Free_Ebook_Download_In PDF document text
    • https://www.riobrasilword.com/2022/10/16/ravish-singh-electrical-networks-In PDF document text
    • https://mentorus.pl/chemical-reaction-engineering-2-by-ka-gavhane-free-In PDF document text
    • http://hardlyfind.com/genocide.cargeenan?zg93bmxvywr8txkytvrom1p6sjhmreuytmpvm016ttrorey4zkrjmu9uqjhmq2hos1ncwgizsmtjsepsyznnz1cxae5urkpruxlcv01pqlfsrvpk=&grain=&awqgzmxvdybjcmfjaybrzxlnzw4gc2vyawfsihbhdgnoawq=starteachingIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_011_off000196b7.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x196B7 119072 bytes
SHA-256: df221e87b81d1531cafdadb6c09a602e9f604d1baf0a17bbd350cbb83baa06f7
font_00_sfnt_off00001ae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AE6 84652 bytes
SHA-256: 4afa1760e2b1183eedc04ece45e6ca142828bb1815d2ec2d36bc01b6dcd9471b
font_01_sfnt_off0000a32e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA32E 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261