MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for 'current affairs' related content, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of numerous external links, many of which are benign, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination.
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/wix?keyword=current+affairs+june+2019+pdf+affairs+cloud
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/26481d_bfa3d05207d44ad48c40654e83de0af9.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e1aa8c06de6f4350ba4ba10d481d326e.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_14170206c1c74eaca49206bd59230354.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c8bc529c4e34f1496d0b4591b5addac.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_39819be299b749e4a93c58badf226a85.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5db661ed29924d9ea51d8550b1656f17.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b1b6ad2dd5b0418cac45e59abcc4f372.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5ba0899f1c3b4c5b88aad73add6155e6.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_352760b18915450b8498e5fa2d09abc4.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_838b1f6d921a45f588b90eeb6c1afaef.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a9006dcd00db4a1ba164894ddcfa0059.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3c3477ab6c604913a677fe73fbc213ad.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3750/files/pawodivukirirutumobus.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5175/1336/files/21666737641.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1926/2363/files/apollos_priestess_crossword_clue.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_off00009f7c.bina9fe6fae57e8eff7b5162ff6c0e77d58330ff3d8e2b802761af427e1d055afab |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F7C | 5612 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2a1.bin5ddf29c6ca956ea1299376ced69d325452bad998fe23914058b6254169b3c01e |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2A1 | 10500 bytes |
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