MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, masquerading as a source for academic articles to lure victims. The redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=sociolinguistics+journal+articles+pdf', is flagged as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.
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=sociolinguistics+journal+articles+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.beautyandbeyondphilippines.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410158/jemotajimug.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.oduboc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453214/3b1aa5006.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.kanawhavalleychurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452989/sibepakore_wisaba_bidezitobe_ranenapudewuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.gammaetaomegaaka.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636990/5608641.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.nanditabatheja.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739142/f6bf1c88a080ba.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7337/1288/files/risuwaxovo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9495/0559/files/zumimisexojiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/63517780522.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3551/7337/files/xelanu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/77160317291.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://gosijanasi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/rakedikidamu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://zisepata.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/56520895389.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://wufikeg.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/kajazod.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://juxotig.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/13198244164.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://suwazazi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/97301505245.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5495/5672/files/mimewewokaratu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0660/7012/files/dubenigarupuwezepegeget.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gofusibosaduxigagixuvoma.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5851/1510/files/munuredix.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3716/2657/files/46501344685.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2821/8010/files/75597124393.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/44994208471.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 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off00007cea.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CEA | 5384 bytes |
SHA-256: bdc9a43bf8427e301dcc71359f60f9c61d431074b425024aee514d867b83f6b2 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00008f39.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F39 | 10940 bytes |
SHA-256: 350e799e97a1937adf72fa48392104f099f4865f4a5f9ee22314dd7a3282a09d |
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