MALICIOUS
152
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=causal+analysis+with+panel+data+pdf', which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF.
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/pify?keyword=causal+analysis+with+panel+data+pdf
- http://files.dynamicwellnesstherapy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871414/6999769.pdf
- http://files.naturalhealthhealinginstituteusa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738870/naguf.pdf
- http://feroza.jaysconyers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407815/nazelipop.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7719/8229/files/dizenajegikidoruvix.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7519/0430/files/9374694738.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6132/1634/files/beauty_and_the_beast_2020_movie_script.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4649/2565/files/52356449093.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0981/0327/files/catalogo_vimar_plana.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1937/0659/files/california_life_science_7th_grade_textbook.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4538/8437/files/9763540358.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3464/7451/files/puper.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7671/3637/files/xazopavinajo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1703/6198/files/37229761586.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2026/3322/files/58666948038.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_off000045e2.binae33547c22b6a39052690988e792f92ee5dda77c3919c37257f7bca1d6c66a44 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45E2 | 5132 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00005771.bine7536cacef009dfc3dae1a1e1e4865d4291422cd65b704692d98e9b54f5fe4fd |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5771 | 10156 bytes |
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