MALICIOUS
128
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 critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'cengage publication chemistry pdf' and includes the malicious URL. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into clicking the link, leading them to a malicious site.
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.com/pify?keyword=cengage+publication+chemistry+pdf
- http://mimor.gaugerpercussion.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/9b85593a05.pdf
- http://files.actionrating.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636748/a386a29f1244.pdf
- http://files.shannondrhodes.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873907/1944747.pdf
- http://files.globalezorder.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303238/wupoziguzuvu-zalofida.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1899/3307/files/48295380624.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1483/1780/files/zevije.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2348/2525/files/bratislava_tourist_guide.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5293/3019/files/mifokatimoj.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2891/4074/files/vetisovejatoxopego.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9656/4131/files/suwuke.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7560/9510/files/30938296911.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5756/9189/files/47416246611.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0408/2851/files/income_tax_changes_for_ay_2020_20.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7110/files/4691434876.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3662/2498/files/33797795432.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5761/8850/files/32865650565.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off000060a7.bina086d2e3dc9f5cd4760cef80bf40799aff2df61d70d55701e347c0b2a12013a0 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60A7 | 5716 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000073eb.bine934c33043a44a05f70d0677cf6a6137064f4d1b96fd1234835b186f378806c6 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73EB | 10180 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off000096f0.bin4bd16c8abd39118228c1571b0005d4eb3b3e943e572fd92a2a80cfcb7b749349 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96F0 | 16164 bytes |
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