SEO/link-farm PDF carrier

PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM

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critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM

What it means

Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links clustered on one host.

Why it fires

Generated malicious PDF campaigns often use scraped text and many clickable PDF URLs to make documents appear in search results and route users through attacker-controlled or compromised link farms. The rule is gated on a small file with many external .pdf URI actions clustered on one host to avoid treating ordinary references as malware. This is social-engineering and redirect-chain evidence, not a PDF parser CVE fingerprint.

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