MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Howard college blackboard' and the URL https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=howard%20college%20blackboard, suggesting a lure to a phishing or scam page. The presence of a link farm further indicates malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.
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.cc/wb?keyword=howard%20college%20blackboard
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4e977a_62d03c58d3b14e65ad9dd229b8ae36a4.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b1b3ad_349d8f0c099d4a42a0cf89a88d89a38a.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee6770_b893cb0697e64b3fbf7fcdd0ee11987d.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7dd30d_3f8b4bf9f72f4c0bbbe9b5b49399af77.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4609a_c4faa9bc2e4540ce9438e30c5f0a5d73.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce4b7c_f8b70f1d4f9f48a999bfea781b321cbe.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4dbf3f_89699251ee4b46cda863e458e71c94cf.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1c462_c854f15cc5114d758a596b89417b886b.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a8cc01_84cc7536c1034eda9b2e54dda0ab0701.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/16879a_297d713e7a4840959a2f24d3a114809d.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_off000040b1.bin09beb66035b9bb91f7cddba3098114d57f4b886ae4374028e5865ee04b267a67 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x40B1 | 5184 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00005277.binac85350e4736717b4c3c7ddde2559b7b9fecb43d38ccce4466a89844d1328f6a |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5277 | 9800 bytes |
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