MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Channel 2 news reporters buffalo ny' and a URL that appears to be part of a lure. The presence of a malicious redirector URL suggests the document is designed to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for an advance-fee scam as indicated by another heuristic.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 5
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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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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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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.link/wix?keyword=channel+2+news+reporters+buffalo+ny In PDF document text
- http://files.sofiebal.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070294/cb805be8a062c29.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.stdavidsashburton.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381518/fumifevexogatipafif.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.uoft-regenerationlab.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815026/5081355.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.theyarnandi.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380558/zokatiruwup.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bolejalo.thaiconsultingfirm.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/supisonova.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/1/0432/0981/8272/files/mawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/bopuzebesu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0071/5674/files/17134354996.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1290/5370/files/73081312310.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3340/9174/files/jujedareja.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/221eaa_38794c5983c04b78bf8c2bc5ce54bfb8.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c250_e09d0255789742e496fb5fd3ce55a6f8.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f00786febb774dfcb39f79a1bc40f0bc.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_00ac2152761240e398918aa13ab26671.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fd78d30831c44b54afee094af1d5ca48.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89064d_a5284baf79ad418092a25417c215c3fa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_f7775f5290294980b8e4c7ddba660e06.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d017d5_b27bfaaf1d224e06afe231a83b5c92d6.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/429b25_5fd03dce94a84c13a39f19bcf9796611.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/227d0f_57ba1bd1878b4402b879b852047cb375.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_off0000b0ce.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0CE | 5360 bytes |
SHA-256: 1237450692fb8dd507d0b78446c5f27b7f82f1d6d90600f2c7b596f9bde77058 |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000c316.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC316 | 10892 bytes |
SHA-256: b1b64d1b5027319163219a9de915f793a9d27b762f2b7523b6311d0aebf52596 |
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