MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains numerous links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'research paper abstract example pdf' and includes the malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests SEO poisoning or traffic generation tactics.
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/pify?keyword=research+paper+abstract+example+pdf
- http://files.thelotuscenterga.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814032/de9b1545314d147.pdf
- http://files.nevisatnight.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398605/e07e12685f.pdf
- http://files.stmichaelsnorman.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856491/482f6e4cc4198f4.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4857/4884/files/mosoborejuji.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2123/6386/files/55256839148.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3516/2784/files/tukowugox.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4077/5071/files/98976650958.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3341/9166/files/zawumugalovifakejigesus.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1899/3320/files/bakalitamisotogidetif.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4782/8133/files/1021282056.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3173/3159/files/kejaxop.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5540/7511/files/1300847257.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3576/1576/files/rujomosoribaxejugu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7951/4777/files/valelarilogajuxanonemewam.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/doxufuvezemog.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5913/2056/files/functionalist_perspective_on_crime.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_off00006e41.bin002af593d2bf80b17a1a83214e1ddc8471357bdfd27198cd12dcc0aadd78476f |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E41 | 5612 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000812f.bin76edcd27e6f02a8cd5a95aa97795c726cd9e54926a5bafcaa1162428851b4481 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x812F | 10520 bytes |
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