Malware Insights
The PDF document employs a social engineering tactic, urging the user to install a browser extension or update to view its content. This is a common lure to facilitate malware installation or credential theft. The document contains a link to a known malicious redirector, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=command+line+linux+pdf, which likely serves as the initial stage for delivering a secondary payload. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector.
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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Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LUREDocument tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
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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=command+line+linux+pdf
- http://files.dubsandtrebs.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606335/rikidugusewux.pdf
- http://mades.jamfinearts.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/netavem.pdf
- http://tikur.acracrew.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695471/fujotezego-zijuwixazo-nadekiviri.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3276/3801/files/46806376850.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6423/9014/files/kagan_cooperative_learning_vk.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/6338597663.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6129/4757/files/kaluvaxezorisi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1070/3010/files/fraps_not_showing_fps.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1322/4094/files/50681539999.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/7803/7159/files/free_french_lessons_for_beginners.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4235/6904/files/29298201236.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1239/9009/files/futexujajobok.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_off00005f28.bin13f8b8bbefcae011b9b77c339427cd21bb3a0470eb8143a3ac7a61078b8205ad |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F28 | 4888 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb5.bin75274c5ded05b1e5789fa9f7d23b6c66d3bc010b77561abc73ec103b38699ef1 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB5 | 10196 bytes |
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