MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=arthur+andersen+scandal+case+study+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the Arthur Andersen scandal and the tool used to generate the PDF, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of multiple external PDF links further supports a link farm or redirection strategy.
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=arthur+andersen+scandal+case+study+pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6240f8_6d8f5b2fb60b4ff9969ed9387e39088b.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_21b9ebe27ef7402f87e0d0f199e9f391.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e4819_2ab847803dfc4f129f7318cad99e09aa.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34e21e_0b7bd6b4b02e4b1b84741a218bb44ae3.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/6703/2998/files/dogojonodafekov.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8509/4307/files/72273367408.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ridikesomuzumiburowafex.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8000/8355/files/wutaveterabanagorigajuje.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5870/8118/files/dijerafuvabo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1747/0101/files/27606993436.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8508/6374/files/351232873.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2917/6232/files/vixezisoguxipusiketagudu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0522/0776/files/sibesoxudakekiwa.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_off00007d1c.bin367660553af83366f75fcbaa50b31f75bcba72ec56e97350c8a990361befc104 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D1C | 5336 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00008f45.bin2618c92917a3617fc215ab79718f7e853b45cd8a0033ffdbef214c2ba2fde874 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F45 | 10404 bytes |
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