Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16b9f99ba125374a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 07:20:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e366902a308b4da4dbc6e1a23d44560a SHA-1: 74408d9f76aa305b69f599aed98ed284c70eaddf SHA-256: 16b9f99ba125374a50f3a916e79a2298a2065394ca5842df20a6694541041690
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to redirector domains, specifically identified as a malicious redirector by heuristics. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the identified redirector, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=ielts+listening+test+answer+sheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mobileonegaming.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738710/24911e10608035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.faithandfriendsinc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696122/7582218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mattawanmasons.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606396/fikedekebozoxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ethelbustamante.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775402/benuverafimapinomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artisanteahut.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874110/penesuvuwesatof_pudimepuxodi_xawatokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4327/4402/files/rains_of_castamere_instrumental.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7065/5381/files/allan_kardec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/26450283228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dipudakafadaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0144/6554/files/vovobunugatalixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2329/2822/files/penyakit_orchitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6213/1869/files/8929260213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5335/1066/files/zoloto_ball_valve_price_list_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1329/9620/files/xofefubusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0902/2886/files/50073096128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8419/3697/files/23152497505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1512/6692/files/12947259900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0949/9551/files/46480942652.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007ec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EC6 5008 bytes
SHA-256: 002310ca18007609f5c45ebfe0ad0202663bfd9da69b3e79b381a464149ffd13
font_01_sfnt_off00008fc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FC8 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 9ae18951823c19ea2b280beadbb9e4c67fb1acac66afbe7e49d22a567e6931d8
font_02_sfnt_off0000b345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB345 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176