MALICIOUS
150
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains numerous links, many of which are part of a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a link to a calculus textbook PDF. This suggests a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
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=essential+calculus+early+transcendentals+1st+edition+pdf
- http://files.mrsolden.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682684/9800698.pdf
- http://files.silverstatemustangs.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378776/nerebimem-susuw-bonunonuzinod-visigusin.pdf
- http://files.iwanttobeanengineer.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380305/pobudegataxuwe.pdf
- http://files.stillnessinmovement.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453255/witofurelonesan.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/85606177453.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4014/4534/files/1031048500.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2393/2311/files/nitofu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1279/2221/files/82241322764.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1407/9143/files/24771718342.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2961/7057/files/pevivup.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9087/7339/files/depomoka.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7788/6367/files/64902491146.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4864/0418/files/dozidivipujet.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0292/1111/files/fidalinegubomekatow.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4324/9563/files/tosudofewakonototakixum.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3644/0733/files/52179539758.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4011/1782/files/rurogofuzuxaluwedidivofez.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/9284441163.pdf?v=1594212706
- 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_off00008dc0.bin5f5c62f36e79d8bca4ef089172dc2a4fa17826c9059cc99c75a14b6fef416ad0 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DC0 | 5260 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00009fc2.bin7c50185e10e727a63ea20edfcbb5fba3b961812bdfcd4c49fd465c635b886fcc |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FC2 | 14916 bytes |
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