Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f998841780cba508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

255.4 KB Created: 2022-06-17 21:45:35 +02:00 Authoring application: elizlay (via PDF Master 1.0.1) First seen: 2026-06-13
MD5: e7df33c0bc7dcf93b4c82e292ed8c828 SHA-1: 4da472ff8de40822c232e4d872589f110233c01c SHA-256: f998841780cba5087d61a2fe1e33996af38dfc4751a6f70e86cc6531034108df
104 Risk Score

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0002

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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/stimate/ZG93bmxvYWR8Y0YzTkRScmRYeDhNVFkxTlRRM09UZzRPWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA/litter/malawi.QXV0b0NBRAQXV&showerheads=loaning PDF link annotation
    • http://evacdir.com/stimate/zg93bmxvywr8y0yztkrscmryedhnvfkxtlrrm09uzzrpwhg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda/litter/malawi.qxv0b0nbraqxv&showerheads=loaningIn 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
stream_008_off00003369.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3369 120140 bytes
SHA-256: a217f12862e0ff75203bdd4136ca0d68471050be46bb09aed5306898926ffdd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e14c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14C 76772 bytes
SHA-256: 07ce6fea3c98bf59133021be55ce9147f9c26365efe580a2a4f82130ca697f54

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