Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Heuristics 5

• 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.
• PDF advertises pirated movie streaming/download medium PDF_PIRACY_STREAMING_LURE
  PDF rendered text advertises free full-movie streaming or download using piracy-brand names or a 'full movie + download/free/watch' intent phrase — recovered after folding the styled Unicode confusables the campaign uses to hide those keywords from plain-text detection. These are disposable SEO-spam carriers that route users to malvertising, fake-player, and scam pages; the PDF itself is inert.
• 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/rumpshaker/elinor/S2hhdHRhIE1lZXRoYSBNb3ZpZSBEb3dubG9hZCBIZCBNcDQgMTAwS2h.harvesting?ZG93bmxvYWR8aVQ5WjNvNVpYeDhNVFkxTnpFNE5qazFOWHg4TWpVNU1IeDhLRTBwSUZkdmNtUndjbVZ6Y3lCYldFMU1VbEJESUZZeUlGQkVSbDA=blatant= PDF link annotation

  • http://hardlyfind.com/rumpshaker/elinor/s2hhdhrhie1lzxroysbnb3zpzsbeb3dubg9hzcbizcbncdqgmtaws2h.harvesting?zg93bmxvywr8avq5wjnvnvpyedhnvfkxtnpfne5qazfowhg4twpvnu1iedhlrtbwsuzkdmntundjbvz6y3lcyldfmu1vbejesuzzeulgqkvsbda=blatant=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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