MALICIOUS
152
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=disciplinary+hearing+charge+sheet+template+south+africa, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'disciplinary hearing charge sheet', suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the malicious 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.cc/pify?keyword=disciplinary+hearing+charge+sheet+template+south+africa
- http://files.astepaheadmusicaltheater.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775432/20cb91.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9005/1221/files/77797185611.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5044/2652/files/noniwefafozilirutupol.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8211/9323/files/ruxezexoja.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1262/0447/files/41069848986.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2260/4695/files/46898890600.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/89647405972.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9792/2461/files/72380961847.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8521/7436/files/elsword_apsara_guide.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4189/1238/files/98738219967.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1270/1860/files/43342702756.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_off00005a2c.bin34bf062a060c0d1fc2045dee2c2f8f6f24036728bd8b1768db4584e4c49ee221 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A2C | 5528 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00006cd7.binde3aba66a9cc37b1c1761bf6f41aed723e9241448b93db180c510fc18479ad48 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CD7 | 10388 bytes |
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