MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
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 at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to 'vceguide networking fundamentals' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and link farm indicates a phishing or scam attempt.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 5
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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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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=vceguide+networking+fundamentals In PDF document text
- http://sirelawi.erasingculturalgenocide.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776167/tosom.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://wosam.tallsprucefarm.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/d89288eb307.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.bookmobiledoorcounty.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813509/e260c922014bdd6.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5119/6315/files/pasalomigupebugukijur.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5220/3161/files/a_twist_of_the_wrist_the_motorcycle_roadracers_handbook.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7668/0870/files/taylor_classical_mechanics_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9416/files/32273491133.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5969/9109/files/34788514584.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5537/3720/files/41961769489.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8181/7495/files/shinee_ring_ding_dong_song_free.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9897/2066/files/texomifovokufumasaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3897/3857/files/bootstrap_3_glyphicons.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0034/7299/files/38990249887.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3787/5614/files/cinemavilla_malayalam_movies_free.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4523/1515/files/79837970734.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_off00006a2a.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A2A | 5344 bytes |
SHA-256: befde6d07f237efbdb02abbcf20d47c38ee20a60a7378fb7fe1772d381db0b7e |
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font_01_sfnt_off00007c4e.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C4E | 9808 bytes |
SHA-256: 058176731bd25f7c771423183acbd1ca7caf7d493fbe951035b1df7df6e06b51 |
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font_02_sfnt_off00009dea.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DEA | 4324 bytes |
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3 |
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