MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one prominent URL leading to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'political cartoon analysis' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of many external links, including to Shopify, indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites.
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/wix?keyword=political+cartoon+analysis+andrew+jackson+answers
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5014/5704/files/nexirera.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2064/7576/files/974695148.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/ielts_reading_test_1_book_4_answers.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0670/5316/files/xuxapirabijulivinutirezet.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e57810900aa64e4c94ebf406672e2a70.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_bccd953cf52d41489922f24b73ccad16.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_53e8f6c744ad4c91b07e0a08e93016c5.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa6f14_50dd8bc4032c4de78377b3ce8189bdc4.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1613/4562/files/cisco_router_user_manual.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8176/7848/files/tapiwivavo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5520/0918/files/marketing_research_notes.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8547/1656/files/10872041596.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1140/0102/files/biostatistics_wayne_daniel_solutions.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8186/7176/files/73205219320.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1560/1314/files/96344578294.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_off000048ca.bin265605b31c3fad47653dfe77df076a101227484ddbd0c34819e12bbef2cfe31f |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48CA | 5268 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00005ade.binf6126cd4c1aa08dc48e9579f06f76d168e30fd33bc5af55d7444c823b6fbbe49 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ADE | 9484 bytes |
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