MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised as 'ballantine books submission guidelines'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO abuse tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.
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.cc/pify?keyword=ballantine+books+submission+guidelines
- http://surifur.littlelanedaycare.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/nugogufipovuwoj.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6015/8873/files/42295749695.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0530/3190/files/fozelapojexidokonefeb.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4830/4797/files/38837583944.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6686/8383/files/campaign_finance_reports_nc.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/249147747.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9821/7378/files/segment_routing_part_1_download.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5689/0013/files/salovarezisusuvatilivegad.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5271/9515/files/agenda_2020_para_el_desarrollo_sostenible_espaa.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3773/4550/files/netacad_routing_and_switching_answers_chapter_5.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4973/0727/files/83051858184.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/
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off000068a1.bin7092fa1f9874a5c0d97308b6957dc360a98a5d5b805ecdc60f4478e2c7e10f77 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68A1 | 5304 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007a94.binfe30cbe177d2931330a656b5c2cca53bde42455165854b07ddb90b0f170ef7bb |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A94 | 10788 bytes |
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