MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to a link farm hosted on Shopify, which ultimately redirects to malicious infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is identified as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to academic research proposals.
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=academic+research+proposal+example+pdf
- http://files.ironthong.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814652/f4f78881b4aa.pdf
- http://files.mytayloralexander.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406885/5652258.pdf
- http://files.remembermequiltguildbr.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380848/fenububajul.pdf
- http://files.kelseyshapira.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437792/sadijeno.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nenipuwewof.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8050/6785/files/doluwukiwarujuju.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4431/4024/files/36563445229.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0397/6614/files/99850410332.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0423/0805/files/88094091283.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7256/1050/files/banikubosetozefibakojezad.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4486/2114/files/wimuratudipewizo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4188/2265/files/58557234942.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0377/1041/files/jafuronepop.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0413/9416/files/55800999763.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2141/0210/files/44802996044.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8032/7070/files/tajafi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2359/6693/files/76732163495.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_off00009b3a.bindb5033565f0563dab8bd976309d38b84bcfc5f014c15b4da0c0860deb22d64a3 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B3A | 5052 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000ac5e.bin0388fa2aeff17818fc8bb3e69cdec79ba6f5027560a09e6170b9f43bd0e4b955 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC5E | 10088 bytes |
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