MALICIOUS
130
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Apexogenesis journal pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading malicious content disguised as an academic paper. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links further supports the SEO link farm heuristic.
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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Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTONDocument contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
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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=apexogenesis+journal+pdf
- http://files.writeworkstutoring.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739831/2180529.pdf
- http://files.malvoncollies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408581/xibapijudunewij.pdf
- http://files.fragilebutunbroken.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406722/990179.pdf
- http://files.smockadoo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452804/8411613.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7048/7702/files/44248501645.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5188/4445/files/junefowagomimopijitusu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7143/9001/files/gutugebupetamovu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4498/6280/files/retail_sales_assistant_job_description.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/20880330559.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8085/7253/files/alia_bhatt_songs_list_free.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6616/2341/files/jawariguruwarosoxikoju.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mujunevuduw.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5583/1445/files/marupedalovubazugene.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5879/7463/files/kexosararawivexonito.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4967/files/93656755240.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/gapadodogorobese.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_off00007405.bince6956e85ea03ffb09e41754e299a04b9ab9f6ae747147a0d611ad5b3d3f7fbe |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7405 | 5344 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000864c.binc8e9381eb454ce341572df6ec98073c65aacd18439d2a23ae5374d856ed82f67 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x864C | 10264 bytes |
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