MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a lure for a 'VMware nsx manager installation guide'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt, likely using a link farm to distribute malicious content.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 5
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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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Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINKPDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
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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=vmware+nsx+manager+installation+guide In PDF document text
- http://pupife.beaufortaviation.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740978/gojulabejepipal.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://paxamib.freetherobotcoffee.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695213/71dea4.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://jateze.golden-meadowlark.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775045/daruzobabafem_zixejidipom_xujapibem_zelema.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1129/2829/files/present_past_and_past_participle_verbs.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7447/6440/files/89632759083.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6518/0321/files/1160239399.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2554/5890/files/16296487266.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4532/8808/files/febawosorokusunug.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97897646990.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5651/9578/files/45907421090.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6533/6217/files/13887974972.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1187/3695/files/80414759368.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1223/files/heartstrings_south_korean_tv_series.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2042/5115/files/metezaramixagowokekevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7188/9817/files/tojajaritajer.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9315/5230/files/85497386661.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 4
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off00006ff0.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF0 | 5152 bytes |
SHA-256: db3985236bc00ac0b35fa62818a634ac2a79d385407cda02c88572781501c926 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00008159.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8159 | 1800 bytes |
SHA-256: daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e |
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font_02_sfnt_off000089e7.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89E7 | 10620 bytes |
SHA-256: 7c6a0fce8931f189d6e8cbdfc028c41d30edd75d2ec118e03aba539a795d6ed0 |
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font_03_sfnt_off0000ae14.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE14 | 4324 bytes |
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361 |
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