Malware Insights
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and a reference to 'comprehension passage for grade 8 with answers', suggesting a lure. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms the malicious nature of the ttraff.com URL, and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external links, likely for SEO poisoning or to distribute the malicious payload.
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=comprehension+passage+for+grade+8+with+answers
- http://files.anikosspa.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776486/vinilitu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7218/2685/files/71822113022.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3277/1750/files/42015080467.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8145/8069/files/kimedoxuwirilewamo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/91960476686.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4061/8134/files/62371705696.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0372/4455/files/xakatupinikog.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6641/6534/files/74316449801.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6707/9830/files/tundra_repair_manual.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4448/5790/files/catcher_in_the_rye_chapter_2.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0346/1283/files/bidujulez.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6989/8914/files/29045397776.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6603/files/giovanni_boccaccio_decameron.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/
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00007457.bin74e6a1a880e10bda855bd721728f33634818359a025d6db663b3b030d047d6c3 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7457 | 5616 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00008750.bina70e5882c5e4bcb4d0195a97f7eb1065b560f0a5c7160aed12f6d87477d20630 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8750 | 10864 bytes |
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