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.cc, which is likely intended to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to crossword answers and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to potentially improve search engine ranking for malicious content.
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.cc/wix?keyword=crossword+puzzle+answers+la+times
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7723/8945/files/anthony_robbins.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6750/6837/files/zaguzakudelalefafo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7474/7558/files/av_nodal_reentrant_tachycardia.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf14a4_49ea903992a14f15b9df2a506e039ef0.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jisabisagubimebusogapasof.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8561/0654/files/23320309665.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9141/8518/files/neet_application_form_2020.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0711/3373/files/99005723121.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9583/4280/files/86462412894.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9014/4421/files/59277216422.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5863/3627/files/dufazof.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4899/1910/files/biodata_for_marriage_male.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2341/6995/files/deadfire_builds_guide.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_off00005fcd.bind028a8ce654110448695860c2d9b498a595854700f6b6e945c84f88391e9023f |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FCD | 5152 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007151.bind2916fdfcbc4cdd18d3a22f1b3a0bdaff501271ac1b612f4060df854e1b19c98 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7151 | 10568 bytes |
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