MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a crossword puzzle answer key. This redirector likely leads to further malicious content or exploits. The document also contains a large number of links to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the lure indicate a phishing or redirection attack.
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=new+york+times+crossword+puzzle+answers+0914
- http://files.drlisamurphy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813448/kuxulujuzutepupivul.pdf
- http://lalusivu.bee-strategies.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/928344d8d302ccf.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7396/1126/files/pneumonia_treatment_guidelines.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9906/2421/files/15457908979.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7079/9510/files/20515437480.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6657/2443/files/71961072804.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/tawewel.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5570/9351/files/dixewamijisitapoxuxi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0558/1211/files/bolaxivabanavebejujirevil.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3292/6616/files/dsp_algorithms_using_c.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_off00005f73.bin1972f2af7ebcc1864cf3e8fd53ded317f9a5968268a616375d6643449fdbe50d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F73 | 5936 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000073bf.bin883277f4aacfeb767a48d58882e86af1d79c44d2160251bfdbcc899a5637f9fb |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73BF | 10356 bytes |
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