Malware Insights
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign-looking Shopify URLs, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com. This indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to lure users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'Google assistant for windows' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a social engineering pretext for the malicious link. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.
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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Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTONDocument contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
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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=google+assistant++for+windows
- http://files.santabarbarabirthmatters.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070151/906310182465.pdf
- http://files.pigmentsolution.de/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874422/7490433.pdf
- http://files.newconnectionsmetrodc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776645/59d09d4b54c2c.pdf
- http://gikoxun.406flies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739173/figerafelusujej.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5202/3458/files/application_of_binary_search_tree_in_data_structure.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2853/7753/files/tejawuret.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5936/3488/files/piroluzut.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5392/2981/files/xijazumodu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7258/4861/files/working_environment.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2548/9320/files/96133600079.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/4213/8262/files/skywatch_tv_guide_nz.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9425/2456/files/9533650287.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0428/0481/files/gmat_analytical_writing.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4287/3249/files/zugub.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7485/5846/files/17660105166.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/
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00006048.binb96c907469881de13d92c68b8a9f4365325b38ac6a3ab3c7ec8e8ac27a9b6772 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6048 | 5200 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007218.bin8af1e2ef35ee5e9626906779e355ea221cd00aee7fc0320d37f0b3f5271a7c00 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7218 | 10428 bytes |
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