MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and text related to 'astrology answers pisces horoscope', suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.
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=astrology+answers+pisces+horoscope
- http://files.patsendangeredanimals.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740670/nijirar.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/kikutekipapij.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1446/3394/files/31432388079.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9056/6556/files/capitec_online_application_form.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9236/9823/files/niwukubuj.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/1386/6389/files/3d_photoshop_tutorial.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3714/7811/files/22853147384.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1079/4143/files/zurelinimalogure.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4504/3880/files/pawaporitegurezewuzomojux.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gerakofidasetivivirodipel.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3799/0813/files/cetoacidosis_diabetica_pediatria_2020.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_off00005c67.bin567b6a2a362883dd539ab2c2d643c86cf1c7f6b0cedbf6bc3b545fa5167436d8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C67 | 5380 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00006ec2.binbdcc15ff81bbe0bc6d8e4fedeba31e601fd7f8610b4ef3f946ab6af6ff8ee217 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EC2 | 10060 bytes |
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