MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though obfuscated, contains a string that appears to be a file name ('dreamweaver cc 2020. pdf') and the malicious URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 5
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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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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/pify?keyword=%25E0%25B8%2584%25E0%25B8%25B9%25E0%25B9%2588%25E0%25B8%25A1%25E0%25B8%25B7%25E0%25B8%25AD+dreamweaver+cc+2020.+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.fertilemoonmidwifery.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/20cf16e33.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.marysclosetco.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379406/61b736.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.kidsfunreads.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775516/kedukulodazoxu-xinefexupezi-varaxifusoli-sagewaluka.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.opentle.orgIn 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/1/0434/5099/0753/files/ganejefi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4976/2459/files/arjun_award_2020_list.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8339/9321/files/zimojubivi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2216/3866/files/mobaxipilulesifupebuva.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8578/1405/files/luzejolusitilelefuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1952/5531/files/niluzunuriwosufiluxef.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5461/2123/files/matatadul.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6211/7020/files/30680180977.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9269/5456/files/38708064822.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5913/2054/files/dovolavinuv.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 4
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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stream_006_off0000895c.bin |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x895C | 13904 bytes |
SHA-256: c604d4370ea60a81670a73bc0d312117e4879317d3bc6e190ae6c6b3d6f804ec |
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font_00_sfnt_off0000657a.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x657A | 5452 bytes |
SHA-256: 67ee9ebbee16bd03df285e11a94e26d1122ef40541ece0c89e196027b80499dc |
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font_01_sfnt_off00007805.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7805 | 6544 bytes |
SHA-256: fdcea428224d05f3763431907873e6755001c22d7c641cfe9d5fc03a5b0f1627 |
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font_03_sfnt_off0000b034.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB034 | 10460 bytes |
SHA-256: 689992c5f3599b92e555755adfa1a8c5b93b2c2dc22fed67917cee9a25450277 |
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