MALICIOUS
242
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
The PDF contains numerous heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a large farm of SEO-optimized PDF links. The document body, though obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of this lure. The primary goal seems to be directing users to download further malicious content disguised as educational materials.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 7
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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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PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINKPDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
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Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINKPDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
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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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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/wb?keyword=chemical%20kinetics%20cbse%20notes%20pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.keeshondarchives.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164312/metodarejejexopi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.shoulderandhandclinicisleofwight.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739308/dopesewewazorozuve.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.futurewire.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381677/683781.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.hpackids.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383456/xelawis-lofunuwuni.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1699/4466/files/fitudixegefukegojupogi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/dictionary_of_electronics_and_communication_engineering.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8094/0710/files/john_deere_2040_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5618/4992/files/51007761000.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3354/2303/files/sojasofa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8512/8099/files/xojewanap.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/2862/9915/files/texto_argumentativo_estructura.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9880/7202/files/microbiology_in_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2207/4534/files/mechanics_of_materials_gere.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/jukemor.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1568/3743/files/fe_to_rf.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
- http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
- http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off0000743f.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x743F | 5408 bytes |
SHA-256: 8c0607dffe6299673efc12c92888571129dbbfc8a84f51b2d170e198063c2aee |
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font_01_sfnt_off00008673.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8673 | 10352 bytes |
SHA-256: 7688cde65b9aa1f8267e274535e5817e1eb2fb2d5144d959d9ccd1b1073ac422 |
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font_02_sfnt_off0000aa03.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA03 | 16128 bytes |
SHA-256: 9876d0897ec9c8daf800546b62de215c972fdd6e45e85ac3a8ec620a70dbc6f8 |
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