Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16bed71d4baab0a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2020-10-03 00:07:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 89bbfce8abba7af81a24edf6f18788d0 SHA-1: 9729cc8520180c67326f1cff257c81a30ec8b1e1 SHA-256: 16bed71d4baab0a7d92479622c2242fdd0972ad44ab582a29e076aa2c46b0409
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, many hosted on disposable domains. One URL, 'https://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=tamil+movie+songs++tamilrockers', is identified as a malicious redirector. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to act as a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content, rather than providing any meaningful information.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=tamil+movie+songs++tamilrockers In PDF document text
    • https://site-1040178.mozfiles.com/files/1040178/lilunosopiginabokaxonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040347.mozfiles.com/files/1040347/7496022742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039341.mozfiles.com/files/1039341/gagovukowugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037222.mozfiles.com/files/1037222/zutajozetepufafomibixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039777.mozfiles.com/files/1039777/zavalejezagaxixuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guzup.grafordisd.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775830/wisotekono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cunninghampeaches.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682806/kikogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.msudestinationauction.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740375/ac0892c1d212a1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dveart.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071082/c75be4cfc47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rsvpvolunteercaregivers.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/navate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1041284.mozfiles.com/files/1041284/99510910754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036815.mozfiles.com/files/1036815/timepezemeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038407.mozfiles.com/files/1038407/63733594339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038468.mozfiles.com/files/1038468/67801635916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037860.mozfiles.com/files/1037860/tupusasubibijugal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037856.mozfiles.com/files/1037856/26977112390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1041766.mozfiles.com/files/1041766/sulabegazobazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paatuvarigal.com\/2016\/03\/kaalam-yen-kadhali-lyrics-from-24.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:AprIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paatuvarigal.com\/2016\/03\/jithu-jilladi-lyrics-from-their.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:AprIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paadalvarigal.com\/3696\/shoot-the-kuruvi-jil-jung-juk-song-lyrics.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:NovIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paadalvarigal.com\/3846\/hey-mama-sethupathi-song-lyrics.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:JanIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paadalvarigal.com\/2503\/you-are-my-darling-vaalu-song-lyrics.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:AugIn PDF document text
    • http:///www.paadalvarigal.com/3745/3745/thillu-mullu-gethu-song-lyrics.html?utm_sourceIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.tsonglyrics.com\/2015\/10\/naanum-rowdythaan-title-track-lyrics.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:SepIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paadalvarigal.com\/3575\/kannaane-kanne-naanum-rowdydhaan-song-lyrics.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:SepIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paadalvarigal.com\/3693\/aranmanai-aranmanai-aranmanai-2-song-lyrics.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:DecIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paadalvarigal.com\/3197\/naan-aval-illai-masss-song-lyrics.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:MayIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paadalvarigal.com\/3325\/iphone-6-nee-yendral-indru-netru-naalai-song-lyrics.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:JunIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/lyrics.wikia.com\/wiki\/Shankar_Mahadevan:Therikkudhu_Masss,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:MayIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paadalvarigal.com\/3709\/domer-u-lord-u-jil-jung-juk-song-In PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.lyricsinbox.com\/4448\/thaen-kaatru-lyrics-gethu,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:DecIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.paadalvarigal.com\/3598\/varavaa-varavaa-naanum-rowdydhaan-song-lyrics.html,video_url:,zoomit:0,premium_content:0,rest_lev:0,rest_msg_free:null,rest_msg_paid:null,_e:0,aes_enabled:1,aet:1,release_date:SepIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off000108b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B9 5192 bytes
SHA-256: c46e1911ba7ba3931cd056e414743854be129f83db4b20fc61f7cbcb0ee4cad7
font_01_sfnt_off00011a56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A56 14104 bytes
SHA-256: 955045072c5578072656284d666e88cba68302c37e9ead80c02fa8a6580892f0