MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body text and embedded links suggest a lure related to 'Thyroid guidelines 2016', but the actual content is obfuscated. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous links pointing to external PDFs, some of which are hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.
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=thyroid+guidelines+2016
- http://files.villinlannen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398094/mizunijadinow_naxezuj_rasosezomuw.pdf
- http://jemexed.onceuponacanvasbenicia.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741555/narajujazefulubaj.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5889/6802/files/dark_souls_2_item_ids.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5217/0406/files/35718844477.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4563/3691/files/adobe_acrobat_editor_free_download_software.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8150/5695/files/22909925337.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86562581376.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6635/8934/files/1675326456.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3593/5388/files/16456591565.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4324/8545/files/cracking_the_coding_interview_reddit.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_off000064b6.binf51d4afbe95b67addd52a0406bbca85db2b67931c2e3de2151dc0ba4f719cf17 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64B6 | 5408 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007729.bin9a30e5afe70f05424282cc29ab928442b57a87f352e69213158011eb34597abf |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7729 | 10236 bytes |
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