MALICIOUS
194
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=social+media+marketing+strategy+pdf+thesis'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure users to a malicious site. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, suggesting a broader campaign to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of the malicious URL and the ML classifier's high confidence score strongly support this assessment.
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=social+media+marketing+strategy+pdf+thesis In PDF document text
- http://files.homewatcherlv.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453031/635387a68.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.lindavergnani.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381607/9043551.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.tylerdiscoverslife.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871622/bopukigigo_pabix.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.shopflawlesshepcat.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606368/welig.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.mississippimudkennels.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410747/b60a8a.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/1/0438/2805/2130/files/sewepurame.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0089/7434/files/11119072631.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1458/5509/files/setting_aside_arbitral_award.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2014/1223/files/nataximesitazutopo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3193/6674/files/lofukaroxud.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kofuka.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6887/files/parowetuwaxiniriri.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4448/6824/files/55844047051.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5905/2706/files/74228507727.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1848/5923/files/computer_concepts_2014.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/39389016200.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7122/5494/files/pisurewaxipuwonasodipotu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6821/5716/files/barrela_plinio_marcos.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_off0000765d.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x765D | 5836 bytes |
SHA-256: fec4ec690b31a87fcf5f1ded475fbe6f5eb37f3aca1807447ff209ac68944716 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00008a22.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A22 | 10656 bytes |
SHA-256: f0930d2ba1eb120a7ab8c482bce8a172283be4d4fee4f86370fa54c7dc293031 |
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