MALICIOUS
152
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=environmental+cost+of+quality+report'. This URL is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing its role as a lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
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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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=environmental+cost+of+quality+report
- http://nojipivi.johnandkathannon.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682107/gukalomubud.pdf
- http://files.performancearthouston.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739007/sosikivevire_woloninusal_jinexodenazabu_vimed.pdf
- http://files.foundationjustice.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406507/1121421.pdf
- http://files.performancearthouston.com/uploads/1/3/
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8472/files/41933458151.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7027/4201/files/vokusolinamuwen.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2434/3462/files/20544219696.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0509/9675/files/jilezewudobolukajijetuxoj.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6703/8106/files/the_theory_of_island_biogeography_1967.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8488/1825/files/basewufuzepegitakufibezuw.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1325/0972/files/i_believe_in_a_thing_called_love_maurene_goo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9376/7832/files/article_50_brexit.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4016/files/the_only_exception_chords.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_off000096fa.binfb217e37ce2dc944a5301bbcad0512ebf2489699e85bbd961c6f2914ab894e5b |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96FA | 5404 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000a955.bin6a28249dda10000069f0200a7e778cc7d9080aed30103e224663408c68dd7dba |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA955 | 10420 bytes |
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