Malware Insights
The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=frankenstein+study+guide+answer'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute content through multiple external resources. The primary intent appears to be directing users to the malicious redirector.
Heuristics 3
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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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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=frankenstein+study+guide+answer
- http://files.istvanocztos.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856907/wawat.pdf
- http://files.cynthiawidawski.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383247/fubit.pdf
- http://files.steffiandalex.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682685/1573947.pdf
- http://files.crossroadsareabirthclasses.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813301/manetob.pdf
- http://files.jessicaesalvatore.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398532/924e62d9372.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2127/9137/files/85708235851.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2090/9718/files/nipixako.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5756/9176/files/gipow.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2564/4192/files/81881021942.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8926/4794/files/puzunebukunebutiwikekom.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5080/files/vobivevojibamakugugag.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/4721300467.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2376/0536/files/61841628092.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6113/2968/files/75244100293.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5654/5433/files/97168083256.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0071/5674/files/gejokitaxug.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5180/9942/files/jufuvebibowimivososunamox.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1247/9382/files/fefurokimowabixup.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_off00006a50.bin9169042c1a6cd4e32f3fec18a21c35adf9f187a7eafb4ecd3d0a461f73985767 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A50 | 5176 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007c14.bin1fa5ed58e3163a71ebfb8b9f9b8bd9d91669264e5ab60b80a10fce3e23ecbfa4 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C14 | 10044 bytes |
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