MALICIOUS
120
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 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ethical+leadership+journal+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.
Heuristics 3
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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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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/pify?keyword=ethical+leadership+journal+pdf
- http://walan.birchsage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408027/xafiseji_buvujuluxasuna_watipowawi.pdf
- http://files.nurianunezhierro.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739004/2056361.pdf
- http://pewego.greenwaynurseryandrainbowclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/2191879.pdf
- http://files.historichopewellchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858791/7265170.pdf
- http://files.leviathaninc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606262/xupefisesexosu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6785/9359/files/58896745270.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6221/4304/files/84601325610.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6871/1321/files/diradenegugiwonomapove.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0574/5051/files/42031142992.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1451/1001/files/recursion_vs_iteration.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5663/3758/files/logan_lathe_manual.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0324/7781/files/sikeziwuvamiwolal.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8126/1466/files/pathfinder_core_rulebook.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7181/3285/files/understanding_symbolic_logic_virginia_klenk.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3291/9720/files/39803033892.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3971/1655/files/xuzedo.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off000100a1.bind778f743969bacaeda726785440cd64f944f7f9457f6a869c743aa9e32c267c2 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A1 | 5276 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00011293.bin3dee8dfd0c11111b39f93238b37ba35a6a45ceb03aa1e2d9edb70c101d5c2161 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11293 | 13112 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off00013d59.bin275d0ef8f619a30f75d5b67021c85ffe51dbf44d82a44ecb2d07128ff93f9399 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D59 | 16112 bytes |
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