Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16b7aaeae69c3d44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 10:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8cc4e2dd111476fe85d650768c6c580f SHA-1: 08a5d7295f5f4bdb40c00d73435fb9a49ef71a33 SHA-256: 16b7aaeae69c3d44a1516ed20a7696dc6b014cef0cbd30f738deabcb0ef7e7a9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, disguised as a free download. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to the redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded links are sufficient to infer a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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 https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=algebra+formulas+pdf+in+telugu In PDF document text
    • http://files.jodibaldacci.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739778/muleti-nefuwofuxolof-mujutajolabi-pakufinetajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sensibleshock.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740479/vasesejakukek_faxej_lelikam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.apiswc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680903/nitivujevakipuxode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasekusa.midmichiganfamilyfun.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775432/504451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://widobete.oursaviorsstx.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/9839889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3590/1602/files/fegoxakumobikumisono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8089/8973/files/cell_phone_advantages_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1097/2053/files/41708013394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5538/0630/files/17914905376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0080/7074/files/52547741589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6824/3624/files/business_communication_email_writing_skills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/35403674757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5693/8664/files/vetifosozatawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4936/1314/files/wajeliluregil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2270/5063/files/xutugevudekuwajusedolabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1080/9256/files/brgschaftserklrung_eltern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2665/3090/files/bsc_physics_syllabus_burdwan_university.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2496/6044/files/types_of_admixture_in_concrete.pdfIn 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/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F94 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 799219062407b821c15334c3d1d8dc91b1f5754059b5d1eceba751e7b25d9f0f
font_01_sfnt_off00007224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7224 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 2f02630c70c12d06182a1cbe5347a2f3dac505f2a7002a0bebd86ad9e9ca7b7b