MALICIOUS
152
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely the primary malicious destination. The document body text, though garbled, contains the phrase 'Sociology of education definition pdf', suggesting a lure to attract users searching for academic content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.
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=sociology+of+education+definition+pdf
- http://files.allisanellwood.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776490/vofawedapo_nalupufamepeti_lemafaxajogeno.pdf
- http://files.circle-of-inspiration.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775834/kiziwipo-lakuvi-xugukolowawi.pdf
- http://redosejuz.ekamniearth.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398020/zobizabur_lofexidupo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6654/files/48256786699.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/1517/1236/files/wavopiteloretavatudol.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9118/9157/files/wopereronixesunosuk.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2217/0787/files/lujofefipozinikolanu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9601/5002/files/zenodamipofiximex.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6500/7509/files/80161681176.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9948/0473/files/ralalonoguwum.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8941/2764/files/xewabikamivumepuve.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4018/6268/files/bhagavad_gita_book_in_kannada.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3874/2430/files/24960559446.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/nanup.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_off00009347.bin971c72503b90967e787a9aaa267920eef992a7bbf0910cb7ba0d155a702d5bf8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9347 | 5256 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000a54c.bine6631c249107392de8264f4430731880aff674e1584e964d1e495608724267a8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA54C | 10104 bytes |
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