MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical redirector link to ttraff.com, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same redirector URL and numerous benign-looking Shopify links, likely intended to obscure the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the heuristic findings.
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=charles+mills+white+ignorance
- http://files.ichdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637271/b38838.pdf
- http://files.cluettinsurance.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164239/c58367b1.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8973/0467/files/34827695631.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7514/0761/files/8651495230.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2145/0914/files/65512312858.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9928/1821/files/wisujubadifon.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2819/9062/files/45390285998.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8583/2096/files/installare_android_studio_su_linux_mint.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/84237762426.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9153/7563/files/bold_art_2_album_zip.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0019/1387/files/silberberg_chemistry_7th_edition_download.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/4653/5073/files/how_information_asymmetry_leads_to_market_failure.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_off00007959.bin888701799d6a63a8218cc141072e8d49831922325b0196e98d0853b8bf2a3db2 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7959 | 5212 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00008b00.bin18e6be7f6029b103a698b6e4664f85122022e09c449cc4db78539e1567a93758 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B00 | 10192 bytes |
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