Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2d8c8ee927daf7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

128.4 KB Created: 2022-07-17 07:58:18 +00:00 Authoring application: germmanr (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-07-12
MD5: 7e9bd22e88a817445d4da55a70c22814 SHA-1: 4d979bc37af184cc5af2f5c6d5b38192bc58c711 SHA-256: e2d8c8ee927daf7f074ce9ec6ff4e686e4a620c1e8bd7c4f5a20194ab1e65804
264 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0005

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://awarefinance.com/winnow/ZG93bmxvYWR8YnQzT1RoNVlueDhNVFkxT0RBd05qWTVPWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA/Y25jIHVzYiBjb250cm9sbGVyIHNvZnR3YXJlIGNyYWNrIDMyY25.oronoko?chairlift=hopefuls&= PDF link annotation
    • https://aalcovid19.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Octapad_playing_software_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wvs.nrw/tipard-blu-ray-copy-7-1-56-link-crack-latest-version/In PDF document text
    • https://yourtripboy.com/superfrog-hd-2013-pc-eng-game-best-download/In PDF document text
    • https://made4you.london/adobe-photoshop-cc-2018-v19-1-0-38906-x86-x64-crack-serial-key-keygen-upd/In PDF document text
    • https://www.sozpaed.work/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Jacked__Motor_Bike_Racing_Game__PC__Torrent_Extra_Quality.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seti.sg/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Shamitabh_Hindi_dubbed_mp4_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saudils.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ekahau_site_survey_keygen_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radialamoladora.com/archicad-14-crack-32-bit-free-download-link/In PDF document text
    • https://www.bigdawgusa.com/autodesk-fusion-360-torrent-install/In PDF document text
    • https://mhealthtechsolutions.com/2022/07/17/virtualdj-8-4-2021-crack/In PDF document text
    • https://ramseyfarmauction.com/2022/07/17/patch-pes-2014-liga-1-romania-15/In PDF document text
    • http://epicphotosbyjohn.com/?p=27904In PDF document text
    • https://designpress.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Beauty_And_The_Beast_English_tamil_dubbed_watch_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aposhop-online.de/2022/07/17/iboot-3-3-0-zip/In PDF document text
    • http://trek12.com/?p=4256In PDF document text
    • https://farmaciacortesi.it/download-_hot_-atm-error-2-720p-film/In PDF document text
    • https://tcv-jh.cz/advert/spss-20-for-windows-7-32-bit-free-verified-download/In PDF document text
    • https://www.theyashelf.com/crack-ekb-siemens-tia-portal-v12-torrent-best/In PDF document text
    • https://uniqueadvantage.info/xforce-keygen-64-bits-cfd-2013-descargar-top/In PDF document text
    • https://kaushalmati.com/adobe-master-collection-cc-2020-torrent-__full__/In PDF document text
    • https://aalcovid19.org/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://made4you.london/adobe-photoshop-cc-2018-v19-1-0-38906-x86-x64-crack-In PDF document text
    • https://www.sozpaed.work/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Jacked__Motor_Bike_RacinIn PDF document text
    • http://seti.sg/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://saudils.com/wp-In PDF document text
    • https://designpress.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Beauty_And_The_Beast_English_In PDF document text
    • http://awarefinance.com/winnow/zg93bmxvywr8ynqzt1ronvluedhnvfkxt0rbd05qwtvpwhg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda/y25jihvzyibjb250cm9sbgvyihnvznr3yxjlignyywnridmyy25.oronoko?chairlift=hopefuls&=In 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
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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004c2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C2C 84648 bytes
SHA-256: 0b6c48f6a4e931a4572b13bb2af9ad514b0702ea3c747f8534c05d2c57946ed4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d48f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD48F 83036 bytes
SHA-256: 6d13e73e85a502a13969f6a5eaecd0b275a0868c045f80b7d64ed55d70678261