Malware Insights
The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to external resources, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=reading+guitar+notes+on+sheet+music'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other PDF links, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity under a lure related to 'reading guitar notes'. 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.cc/pify?keyword=reading+guitar+notes+on+sheet+music
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Extracted artifacts 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00007f03.binaf4163b9568bdc9bda16768799bcd3a6ed0c701dbd333772a0d706632f8cd41a |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F03 | 5328 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000090eb.binb33b99723709d65393e75e96bde8969f2d7e801a017147581d3d7d44d4222c59 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90EB | 9732 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off0000b27f.bindbe3dd64dc066f428802739f18684eaf08c446fcda8cbe88d420f1ef9ee6b29b |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB27F | 16100 bytes |
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