MALICIOUS
234
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.001 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.me'. The document body also contains a lure to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering tactic. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of malicious redirector links and the social engineering lure strongly suggest an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.
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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Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LUREDocument tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
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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=traffic+exchange+bot+free In PDF document text
- http://files.thecurrencymatrix.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410158/220cb9a76ee5b52.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.glcec.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398149/4c02387612ae190.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://vubafipi.spaceschool.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739624/41db3709c106ca.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.iphonerepair-inlosangeles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455463/5816b826bd111.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://zepuso.taureauxroug.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874019/5ad077aec958bd.pdfIn 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/1/0428/4504/4892/files/python_data_analysis_example.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8976/2206/files/pso_mag_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8486/3893/files/11495107258.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1257/0783/files/japanese_construction_equipment_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1847/7987/files/80670714748.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3452/5347/files/how_instagram_videos_on_android.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0486/6080/7848/files/nashville_sounds_current_score.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://58196efb-4d42-43a8-ab89-88e0db7a00e7.filesusr.com/ugd/5f4192_7ca589305fae4411ba5193c6e9b28d01.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
- https://23a31da1-4ec1-4979-b9d8-e1ee8ce0c3a1.filesusr.com/ugd/49488e_8575ceeff5f2407fb05e7172bc094aba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
- https://d844abdb-4576-4ffd-bb6c-1b76c05e6c43.filesusr.com/ugd/fa6f14_af70730045614c658014a18e78361bae.pdf?index=trueIn 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 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off0000662b.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x662B | 5092 bytes |
SHA-256: 437aa35550422c8296c51fa54752a8a360fb9757b4a46c7e8c771d4a3d865664 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00007781.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7781 | 10348 bytes |
SHA-256: 12001103a162db8e63c99fb5080aae7e684b127ea16366cafe942ef00114306a |
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