MALICIOUS
214
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO scam. One primary URL, https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=relationship%20between%20inflation%20and%20unemployment%20in%20south%20africa%20pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.
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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Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LUREDocument asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
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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.cc/wb?keyword=relationship%20between%20inflation%20and%20unemployment%20in%20south%20africa%20pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.aimeehillmassageyoga.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683154/7e0959846e.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.waynetownshiptrustee.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164440/ad46123c10e525c.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sodet.mandrcatering.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453850/vower-jurineragagug.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://mabagi.doublekequineservicesllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968921/gosozisikapa.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.gccserviceshouston.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398338/2c4455c80.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/1/0435/3071/5288/files/pafirivuwajewoximiruwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8996/1884/files/puvomerodaxabivoxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/8833338052.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6100/9829/files/movafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3012/2393/files/life_together_dietrich_bonhoeffer.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3925/files/2_3_5_7_11.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5792/9621/files/39118225886.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8950/7990/files/architectural_perspective_drawing_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3548/2517/files/john_deere_z225_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4603/4846/files/nazomafovulatodorimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2694/7989/files/59538686782.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0071/6694/files/40554125586.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/vijabafagedisepagis.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/segofinavafijulibefifanib.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_off00005fa4.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FA4 | 5736 bytes |
SHA-256: c2dc82365afd124f6f50811c7d2166e14b656d22a453a48e6bd670e2202fd059 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00007316.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7316 | 10312 bytes |
SHA-256: bd07e483079046ad5205544ebed1e1daf728d9f3bcefc152ded5c7a55ab2213e |
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