Malware Insights
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify and Weebly domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or create a link farm. One prominent URL, https://ttraff.cc/123?keyword=who+created+ravenstein%2527s+laws+of+migration, is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this malicious redirector URL and other benign-looking PDF links, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution lure.
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.cc/123?keyword=who+created+ravenstein%2527s+laws+of+migration In PDF document text
- https://zavomafig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356936/xagofiboti.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373985/normal_5f8cf6007ace1.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369660/normal_5f88b0801b273.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367281/normal_5f91d71647842.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369174/normal_5f89a2e50670f.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/1/0496/6285/3283/files/todibuzuliwonavizox.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0502/1394/5513/files/youtube_video_downloader_manager_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/8250/9213/files/54954435172.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0503/4046/2789/files/grade_9_english_exam_practice.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5305/6149/files/86515524453.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/5472/9882/files/cat_fursuit_ref_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/4660/8282/files/properties_of_water_lab_ap_biology_lab_1_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/8688/1985/files/king_crab_restaurant_depot.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/0593/3254/files/98722209642.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/8457/3600/files/dubepobevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5696/2467/files/android_beam_for_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/6806/2379/files/49080486887.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3348/4702/files/99097402869.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/2850/3464/files/download_game_radiation_island_mod_apk_data.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/8190/1253/files/battlefield_firestorm_download_for_android.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_off0000624d.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x624D | 5632 bytes |
SHA-256: 7088a5bc2fc416015eecf6a424e76a4eac3e736acfb68b15692e1b37a4bb9c5a |
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font_01_sfnt_off00007574.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7574 | 10480 bytes |
SHA-256: feabc07756ac41a1927e71366b862b1710c01e0546b81606f96a4f8d1d724c46 |
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