Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16f58a932832444a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2020-09-21 03:13:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 22cb5ef6793776b84c287473b5da9c31 SHA-1: 8ed847f2903f8eec6d15a68f3fa09c6f2164e248 SHA-256: 16f58a932832444a9e1b6dbf5a4fd3ef92b5347e278fea251e739e29f96a24e6
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains, and one specifically to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to a 'strategy guide' and URLs, reinforcing the link farm and redirector findings. This indicates a likely SEO spam or phishing campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=mega+man+x3+strategy+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.cochranhomeinspections.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814342/winukaputi_nepebapenipumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votosum.taiwancarparts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814173/pajalafuzovagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://difolaxiw.thefashionablefarmgirl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739197/ropobokadedibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakej.yesseniacalderon.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381924/debixuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roseswithoutthorns.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775647/df950b23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulopazi.harvardgapyearsociety.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408229/9181890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xejore.ciumontreal.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776436/reradejixofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rodrigoforhire.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739616/tonazezinum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tilaw.mooliday.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/kijoduxevaj_poxusibaturaxad_tojijajoxitade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4793b225-0519-4bed-a323-b760ac3ac05a.filesusr.com/ugd/15cd4d_576e126cd5654e39bb0a47ec70b92261.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7df5c048-7b2e-4bc2-a637-c9b73b4ea26b.filesusr.com/ugd/1813b3_ab84061b11e64c1db92f65f85065593a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://640cd9ea-9543-444a-9bda-863db11e69ee.filesusr.com/ugd/ee6770_0d48e6435c5649838202bd4ee5e5e98b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e4750a86-bb87-4ac3-9d96-33915e57d0d3.filesusr.com/ugd/4cf28d_57785ceb011948c1a9c4efc77d8521e6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9b645a08-30b0-47e3-bf5d-35e163c512d1.filesusr.com/ugd/5bb01c_90556416ea2949a2b3e2690d54a50608.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cc116794-1dd6-4ca7-afed-25396e233898.filesusr.com/ugd/238140_f852b233813845718bbde36d48a42610.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://85e73827-7598-44b6-bb57-0efad31fada1.filesusr.com/ugd/74a852_8ba4b7433c44481b92fded11a6ecf30c.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000bf53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF53 5452 bytes
SHA-256: c2726b1dc7e514c7739b0eb615d1c7124210b7f4aebb8950590c9bb7dc1ab0a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1DF 10516 bytes
SHA-256: cac52e74f26838ee96fadf6b3802f151c8bacbcb8b26a0d7c6aebe7827152c57