MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a case study on leadership, aiming to lure users to a potentially harmful website. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.
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.me/wix?keyword=a+case+study+on+leadership+pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- http://www.daltonmaag.com/
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d3c2845f2aaa41ab86eed1bb345d4214.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4117a9_cc084d7cf6f24b0eaed6809b9d760a87.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b42fd6_2d3a0e1575b24ec99437a46f7f80608c.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8072/1311/files/85881664479.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f197_6bd2dbff5923495b94d54bdeebb4dd5d.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_575eeb01167d49938156ad861ba7b5be.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e6092c_a82921d0d6454be19381a74a614c6174.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5348/2138/files/bhagavad_gita_book_telugu_download.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7191/7471/files/hernia_umbilical_sintomas_en_adultos.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4055/5687/files/72840382882.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/1249/0133/files/87140132906.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00005d38.binaa648be15ef477f9e460ea1d8a728fb6ca9be2c6d62932ba7dacf35856feb5e2 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D38 | 5216 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00006ee8.bin0ff4c64cdaa6f8005d48b48124f19d31c590cd38241f2b66ddc6f8066a1d80d7 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EE8 | 10208 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off000091cc.bin9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91CC | 4324 bytes |
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