MALICIOUS
150
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=apa+format+citation+website+pdf', suggesting a lure related to academic citations. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 3
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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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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=apa+format+citation+website+pdf
- http://files.michimathias.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739251/xirexaveresorud-diripanafuru-jikedi.pdf
- http://files.centralparkwaysites.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454355/ladisikumawukotorazo.pdf
- http://files.hallieselinger.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437147/4691193.pdf
- http://files.mayusaeki.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453177/0d76b43dd8b7.pdf
- http://files.bohemianrosedesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483149/5437cc47ed6.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0342/9535/files/kujubatepenapubugusajubu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5725/files/mivukebikofe.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3206/8775/files/83757015424.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4119/3110/files/kabunafijafuzanav.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5249/8070/files/jexiboruraxezamen.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7881/8715/files/suruvobifuseruzemuw.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/kesij.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8957/6601/files/drop_a_tuning.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2791/files/sworn_affidavit_template.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6577/0135/files/44824293994.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7129/7943/files/kugazawol.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00006b78.binf2c854d33f962880f6b0b369a753a5fc38b36ae784891c84414df6233c9fdcd8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B78 | 5280 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007d53.bin9c9b1321b637c40d9749175547824aa59b366173c1cde8527b723521cef8c75d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D53 | 9800 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off00009ecf.bind1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9ECF | 4324 bytes |
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