Malware Insights
The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=rcog+guideline+hyperemesis+gravidarum, which is likely used to host or redirect to a malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other benign-looking Shopify links, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this 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.com/pify?keyword=rcog+guideline+hyperemesis+gravidarum
- http://files.mrhillsscience.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070009/witeg.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0151/1064/files/drake_i_feel_blessed.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2629/8533/files/2015_turbotax_premier.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2358/7736/files/cabling_standards.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9224/5666/files/cat_3208_spec.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4111/1707/files/nimojoposubosupevozenud.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6465/3984/files/latest_ant_contrib_jar.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1641/1547/files/67262812536.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9957/8773/files/65697880781.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_off000043e1.bin10be1aefde51730f415cb167fffc78538fe01c30c6738aff5d5a39db64931a88 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43E1 | 5460 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000563d.bind702179795a27ce459e9c874daaa36ee35bbab47825029d4f290bdba473e6fd0 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x563D | 9588 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off0000770d.bin05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x770D | 4324 bytes |
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