MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.com, which is flagged as malicious infrastructure. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL and keywords suggesting a lure for a 'software project survival guide'. The primary attack vector appears to be users being tricked into clicking the malicious link.
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=software+project+survival+guide+pdf
- http://files.maceymania.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406222/7877367.pdf
- http://files.behomewreckerstogether.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969354/9fd120b.pdf
- http://files.breathelaughlove.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738652/fd6a64f4.pdf
- http://files.taralynashley.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740323/bosepi_zikawosi_sezanarisof_ludariru.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8721/6293/files/89624228077.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8460/1752/files/dufesazukukanewu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6304/0408/files/37770278187.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9378/4728/files/lareritevapo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7846/7222/files/67280215612.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6730/2295/files/23533406960.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7379/8306/files/71808232347.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7016/8986/files/29012225314.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23063093424.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pekazojifedabefotekufof.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_off0000971a.binfbf18846f6d3a3ab71ac460c3604d2d408ddd86a91ec210e14899af2db29dc6e |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x971A | 5656 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000aa89.bin5ff10fc15cd09c00cf0dffae53a5ecbc9868f6b82770b812e25ccc6577d3a88b |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA89 | 10432 bytes |
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