MALICIOUS
214
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. Specifically, it links to a redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=the+power+of+critical+thinking+5th+edition+pdf', which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a deceptive lure for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern points to a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 6
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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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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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Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LUREDocument asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
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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.me/wix?keyword=the+power+of+critical+thinking+5th+edition+pdf In 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/1/0428/5513/7447/files/59427106102.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8982/8771/files/appium_for_mobile_testing.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6142/5814/files/47195548674.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/8104/2839/files/bhagavath_geetha_malayalam_download.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4965/files/building_components_and_materials.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8080/9622/files/algae_and_bryophytes.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3853946d01894217bf58c5ea9bbbd60f.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5acf3bd648bb4d3ebe36e1253e730c57.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea78e0_c401d45e061742ca972e07667e5ad04f.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99ba59804ab64eb4abdcbe0392892358.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4024/2840/files/70924981167.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/6820/3675/files/28008308300.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0631/9001/files/carbohydrates_ppt_download.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9570/3204/files/kamatibujuvufu.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
Extracted artifacts 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off00006140.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6140 | 5468 bytes |
SHA-256: fa10145731b372168f7488c5e16390b54f8c356f5b1ae01db20103fad45939aa |
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font_01_sfnt_off000073e0.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73E0 | 2576 bytes |
SHA-256: 5b39e9209f2f5823ace8c91dcdd9d22e48f67d4c3a8bd5da9fa9055417ac3ba4 |
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font_02_sfnt_off00007d9f.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D9F | 10400 bytes |
SHA-256: ec5efa60d40d5815f8cda770ea121048c5c51e897543c4833a191b79fd71e42a |
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