MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely using the academic-sounding titles to lure victims. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.
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/wix?keyword=lifespan+development+16th+edition+fr
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9948/8410/files/semigovelinijuwifos.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6197/8023/files/vitisigijijukalotimik.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0432/0154/files/adventure_island_game_for_windows_xp.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7320/7446/files/crash_bandicoot_xbox_360_free.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/favumotukavona.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d55797_4e592ea81a7345ad9c1fe5836c3a629d.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/289c5e_1ca994a272b743638680412813b92c1b.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/225520_3cb6d57217ec44afa8bff33896bb2b6d.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0916/0862/files/15882270641.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9024/5787/files/62540985902.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7677/9174/files/gleanings_baha_u_llah.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_off0000460a.bin339105171af860a4163f53779e889d560713c9883319405ff4917e21cc9fcf0c |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x460A | 5488 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000589b.bin75318e09967362797ef8a374d632908d899de0a3b7a0ae85af799e2a7aaffe72 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x589B | 9936 bytes |
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