Malware Insights
The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Another critical heuristic, 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', highlights the mass of external PDF links, with 'cdn.shopify.com' being the dominant host. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, and the presence of the 'ethical altruism pdf' keyword in the malicious URL suggests a lure for search engine optimization or social engineering.
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/wb?keyword=ethical%20altruism%20pdf
- http://files.fotsga.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814411/155b35a1.pdf
- http://files.jameswolverton.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775734/maguzog-bubirizeror-rogijinegeg-bawurod.pdf
- http://files.literallyanythingmovies.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813841/pizavoru.pdf
- http://files.jameswolverton.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1479/9012/files/jovegene.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5461/2123/files/wajosofumikid.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8219/5879/files/24736283613.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3577/1558/files/21979308137.pdf
- https://wovuvel596308806.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/kuxewudipef.pdf
- https://zadevexidag.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/wijupivavilivokulomi.pdf
- https://dadikopur.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/xedegepepeb.pdf
- https://ladubine.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/51253893359.pdf
- https://xupafib.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/61417469185.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/nogifetevuwafanufa.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/94448736580.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9577/7699/files/73728324182.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6295/9006/files/jukapuzedevuk.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4536/3610/files/41664868884.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0142/files/30607933039.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9164/8929/files/65354671290.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3531/1775/files/79145693424.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_off0000711a.bin30f602738b885e1182e253872f311a5a89a26f57a1503be0ff8afed2bb2664d9 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x711A | 4900 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000081b9.bin047df174d809d32fc0d3b458ede8c1e42b816d4a761200296c92c9031be53937 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81B9 | 10420 bytes |
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