MALICIOUS
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Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to a 'Supreme court verdict on cauvery water dispute pdf', suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 7
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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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PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINKPDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
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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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Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LUREDocument contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
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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.com/pify?keyword=supreme+court+verdict+on+cauvery+water+dispute+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.creativenationnonprofitcorporation.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856770/3242748.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.sbphotoshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453402/7da7e.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.nishanpress.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775795/vabixub.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.truetolifephotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482931/d2605f.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/1/0429/4141/5587/files/99178310694.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4945/0661/files/40044388519.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9246/7109/files/fimudewojagafiwofezovun.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7205/9547/files/72113724221.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wojifuxazax.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5143/4652/files/xemadipuxamo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7285/5967/files/centurylink_change_wifi_password.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1677/4054/files/86866602069.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1848/4885/files/vavatetujexan.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1517/5335/files/83874224169.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5490/4997/files/convert_kindle_books_to.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48975286879.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_off0000e110.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE110 | 5624 bytes |
SHA-256: 58ddcf1e284c464c8fc23f97ed37014774f66b024e731a79c46e51cf7645c30c |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000f440.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF440 | 10540 bytes |
SHA-256: a400c7ae2c6b5d6fdc3951c6ac39e26b0f3b97e2c25ad095b7e44567de20e995 |
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