MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'British council ielts revaluation form pdf'. The presence of a link farm and the ML classifier's high confidence further support the malicious nature of this document. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious URLs.
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.cc/pify?keyword=british+council+ielts+revaluation+form+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.mwdcoach.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406507/3198088.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.ultimatefitnessbootcamp.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738969/f3c8cc53d1643.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.teamprescott.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637374/zewelid_wimaxugegoser_karenoredagazar.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.snowridgedoodles.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814676/lunuvarobaf-gabavavopa-gumezosu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.keith-tealeaf-henley.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871786/vanevelesipej.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/1/0430/6989/8909/files/basal.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7241/3079/files/jugavusoxuvuzosobax.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5373/6348/files/mamavatupenaruwowigo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9684/2142/files/17164417734.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6826/8456/files/durapek.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5275/files/86641162255.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7185/5002/files/zemizevewibijilupuberirid.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1128/4893/files/42771444740.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/duvijunupogelirebegixu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8865/7051/files/6324308589.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5598/9404/files/vesozisome.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2214/0063/files/1155741944.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
- http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn 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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stream_007_off0000ab2b.bin |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xAB2B | 18048 bytes |
SHA-256: 253bd571fe7a5692cc832aa5099efbd1d070ab3ebee40d15ea99748705950b06 |
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font_00_sfnt_off00007519.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7519 | 5388 bytes |
SHA-256: 94a07f9c5605e63a7b893e63d4287d9cd06190d0477a7887fab4f355e3188c10 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00008741.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8741 | 10460 bytes |
SHA-256: 32504f773de750ddbec1af0104c0d34129e44afc9029002665157d9011629786 |
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