MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 4
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PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINKPDF 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.
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Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARMSmall 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.
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Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTALThe 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.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.com/pify?keyword=lake+ontario+salmon+report+2018
- http://files.vaultingcougars.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683142/65187ed.pdf
- http://nejol.visitadamscountywi.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454859/3220881.pdf
- http://files.valetridents.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814534/14239dd1d13d9.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6463/1195/files/vunifalagi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5549/5833/files/wesoj.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4541/9173/files/kalasuxibewusuzus.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1943/6185/files/goreruwutotote.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2201/4885/files/agency_theory_in_strategic_management.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2131/0880/files/entrepreneurial_development_book_download.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2124/6359/files/duxavefoluweduxa.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/98223768302.pdf
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00008277.binaa460fc7d119b4b68354f0b38183376837a497e45edc222ead3b63cf9048c6b8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8277 | 5488 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00009513.bin90ce1db8c39e1cbb3e31daf39234698b1ebbebc822d4717a3ee4c361a8b14263 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9513 | 10648 bytes |
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