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.com, which is disguised as an answer key. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt. The PDF also contains a large number of links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm used to distribute malicious content or for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.
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.com/pify?keyword=guided+reading+activity+9-+3+answer+key
- http://files.katherinebaldwin.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636655/6da14035.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9386/8187/files/rulap.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7873/7302/files/basic_interview_questions_on_electrical_engineering_pdf.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0877/8663/files/general_awareness_of_computer_hardware.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6855/5415/files/gidipi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3165/7624/files/antonyms_list_for_competitive_exams_free_download.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9674/4871/files/introduction_to_active_directory_domain_services_windows_server_2020.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4713/1035/files/pogifavibonegusanuliziraj.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8023/6702/files/dapisalupafibazite.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7837/6853/files/4119669789.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_off0000b9c3.bin6b346639c173010c475b30fea3f33ae658af5c7dcd21b5039805a6bc11cd0554 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9C3 | 5776 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000cda6.bin264dbd209c71480b82ae88708bf914808fb996dc7cbd7657da7f7443f39f7f3c |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDA6 | 12656 bytes |
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