MALICIOUS
202
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to PDFs hosted on Shopify. One prominent link redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com, disguised as a search result for a research paper. This suggests a phishing or redirection campaign. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution chains.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 6
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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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Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINKPDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
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Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LUREDocument contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
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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/wb?keyword=results%20and%20discussion%20sample%20research%20paper%20pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.caritas-academy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381021/lanazawetobizukuraxo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.maziyahyussof.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636828/nojetijomenawakavixo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.t3targets.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384281/472974.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.thirdcinemaproductions.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379749/sonazez.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.lovebugweddingcars.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871814/cde6f3f61.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8276/0870/files/9607452788.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9579/3568/files/bronkoskopi_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1970/6273/files/9761745709.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6738/3713/files/22353289854.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/11463593295.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3929/3589/files/dixowamubujakaxaxadeju.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8840/2839/files/95322861295.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/datumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jexisobipa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6825/2565/files/30941569292.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9232/0161/files/aperturas_de_ajedrez_explicadas.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6212/2903/files/89780893846.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7808/0919/files/67635127216.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/lawasituzolog.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off00007075.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7075 | 5404 bytes |
SHA-256: f574b5aab2440daf6e9ee1af12b100ffdf8b71886f3a24c4ba3edd711e0efd6f |
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font_01_sfnt_off000082ac.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82AC | 12060 bytes |
SHA-256: 84b70809e941f0ec760773e68874d96c1df5d8072fa42a0e0e376d42929b8742 |
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