MALICIOUS
152
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=essentials+of+comparative+politics+with+cases+%2528sixth+ap%25C2%25AE+edition%2529+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a book title, to entice users into clicking it. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt, further indicating malicious intent.
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.me/wix?keyword=essentials+of+comparative+politics+with+cases+%2528sixth+ap%25C2%25AE+edition%2529+pdf
- https://17e2d9f0-be99-45d2-92ff-33ad46f79e78.filesusr.com/ugd/de65f7_a516ba497dff4c5ba09bc4a41da68b58.pdf?index=true
- https://7f6567f2-25a4-455d-8c57-2eb329b4730b.filesusr.com/ugd/120f26_6ef1e76e97984854a232db85b440de78.pdf?index=true
- https://6f0cbbda-496d-4fd0-a59b-66e0c0b08299.filesusr.com/ugd/a6e5e9_5e35ef508d5c42be8c24cdce4533f1f5.pdf?index=true
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2642/3708/files/singh_is_king_film_song_ming.pdf
- https://5a363b55-3189-4fec-b119-f883ea424849.filesusr.com/ugd/a98ecc_a7238571e9cc472fb094780d535529ce.pdf?index=true
- https://80b88541-3f4e-43c7-a81d-1cdb3adef51b.filesusr.com/ugd/c33cdb_92404df1483d4feda831ef52f4741ae8.pdf?index=true
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7341/3032/files/international_arbitration_law_and_practice.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5056/4773/files/kuzolo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3001/2316/files/generational_differences_worksheet.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/3344/8868/files/pros_and_cons_of_social_media_essay.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_off000047e5.binfb612037ea48a576eda574794ba8a697cbba5c13daaab929bc0ae57f025396ea |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47E5 | 5972 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00005c45.bin09bb21f935fe3eb4f417d8a9d0f77c15d45972f26154704f36caece88cf15df1 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C45 | 10260 bytes |
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