MALICIOUS
162
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'communication strategy document template' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 5
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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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Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTONDocument contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
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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=communication+strategy+document+template
- http://files.susiegrindey.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408256/82314.pdf
- http://files.pilatesafterschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383924/8629276.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3549/0461/files/zodasibopedaro.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6075/6641/files/getutiwatafimobasurugewow.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3119/0952/files/tibetan_reiki_symbols_and_meanings.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8856/6677/files/41115812509.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9802/9733/files/ford_jubilee_tractor.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7152/7325/files/ffxiv_goldsmith_guide.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6956/3290/files/woresuf.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7188/7767/files/game_of_life_quarter_life_crisis_instructions.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2537/4103/files/15955539844.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_off000073e0.bind4aa481a88b92a890482834de4066707687e5fb6c630e2f4bf1beee63ef0ae78 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73E0 | 5400 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00008625.binfba79c51cc7dad910f043b81b2f32b1ae20117a9438e0778db9ff3c6cc383ed3 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8625 | 10476 bytes |
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