Malware Insights
The PDF contains a link farm designed to mimic search results, specifically for 'dragon quest monsters joker 3 english rom', which is a common lure for users seeking game ROMs. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=dragon+quest+monsters+joker+3+english+rom, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also includes numerous links to PDFs hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic indicates that the document likely intends to trick the user into downloading a password-protected archive, which would typically contain the actual malware payload, thus bypassing gateway security.
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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Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LUREDocument gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
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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.ru/wix?keyword=dragon+quest+monsters+joker+3+english+rom
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1aaf8e732ebf43249cdee28f20905d00.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d7ef624ea4c24ec9b07957656968102d.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3812a23079d74b67bbe662700c4bc0bd.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1d8c67967e934c16be67fbfbc3b00398.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9241/8468/files/atlas_world_map_book_free_download.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5671/7205/files/liver_cirrhosis_diet.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b47706_4e0527e7349d497697aba902e1c493f1.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb6612_604deaad4cca4a7db4016c97dcb637f0.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b5f63_bea331d6fa374c6eb3fe029485e3e60f.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a905ced1868b4c9397f96f1750eac592.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_62ead4b5d7db4e8381977a53c9133e96.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0cc918520b014589bc44b787b64cfde7.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6263b47bbb844538963b7dc5bdffd8f1.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 |
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font_00_sfnt_off0000482c.bin0e47e2fc60909c6257c16b86f1261ffc5e5ac6929cc10ddee4062efbbb93a8eb |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x482C | 5528 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00005ad3.bin208bf2c46646da8fa5d2ca7590d636e1dd9c16eb5d9eb4ad372c2b7d45293c94 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AD3 | 10424 bytes |
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