Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16e368589c8de955…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-10-05 04:13:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 73c2c7adbc4a7d3f6c8059772ed46ba0 SHA-1: 132694a352953c0140fbd37809cc14fdb82fd40c SHA-256: 16e368589c8de955d73ae32c427530c878cbbddec539b61ded302f5f6988a60a
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and redirector infrastructure. One critical heuristic indicates links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are consistent with SEO link farming or redirection tactics. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious content or exploit kits.

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=dka+pediatric+guidelines+%25E0%25B9%2584%25E0%25B8%2597%25E0%25B8%25A2 In PDF document text
    • http://zevog.elizabethjohnsonphillips.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070705/fopomixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cjsclimbandplay.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969855/gipona-tovipumugaporaw-koponuwipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ngmfpn.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969686/5578466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.judobooster.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775063/afc6dcb1d74a0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mercedesvianochauffeurlondon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813055/lizojigesuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawoj.castpartynyc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407668/3876887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.herdiselmend.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455543/8393200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sandiegocsi.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482887/7261040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e5acaf0-ebe3-4cff-a242-e737a9a2bd9f/75326534943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/51dca90a-718e-4384-aa07-bee12492d309/57317807824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6831286-8d02-41f1-a441-f597f24be4a1/lokokiwimivebulewisatuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/02e15d1a-a2e9-4ae6-8054-6148ce5218b0/jumijexifisabefowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0477/2757/5196/files/ralph_waldo_emerson_essays_first_series.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8922/3066/files/mary_e._volz_elementary_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0486/1984/7845/files/annunciation_triptych_ap_art_history.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3907/1130/files/my_hero_academia_ep_51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4971/1776/files/is_lithium_more_reactive_than_potassium.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005fbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FBB 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 6beed63a22ec66a167de56d671cc8683cafddeb55b3be64fea15b88daab58d3b
font_01_sfnt_off000071d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D9 6228 bytes
SHA-256: 2691076151163fbd5524cf562f6cdbb0bb61a4ed23ca7a479a8f2f50593c068f
font_02_sfnt_off0000820a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x820A 12468 bytes
SHA-256: 1e6644df3a7498a11a9302112c8494a2f1cfdff5d5fdb67f354d9beeb31c7a6b