MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with the primary one leading to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a guide for 'Galactic Civilizations 3', likely a lure. The presence of a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for malicious redirector links indicates a phishing or scam attempt.
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.ru/pify?keyword=galactic+civilizations+3+synthetic+guide+2018
- http://fivobab.pathwaysretreat.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452958/6327212.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- http://www.daltonmaag.com/
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4517/0850/files/advanced_trainer._practice_tests_with_answers.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2606/9157/files/86116007789.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9403/9975/files/60907436866.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7331/4715/files/60261525137.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/edible_oil_refinery_process_flow_diagram.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8441/5143/files/delukobajofurog.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7511/6964/files/morurunamesoputes.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5204/7272/files/hokkaido_driving_map.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8027/8426/files/83158258686.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6896/files/41012870231.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3361/6803/files/73175121656.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3125/7510/files/definition_of_oligopoly.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off000061e8.bin34337f78ab2696214492436bdf69c49f2df2ae61060ea08248e3196de550e567 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61E8 | 5916 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007618.bin8fd39a55885b6e3cf6263a9aeb6d90a3b754f76778926573e61232d492d4cd71 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7618 | 10144 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off000098cb.bina542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98CB | 4324 bytes |
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