Malware Insights
The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm, indicating a probable SEO manipulation or phishing attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cardiff+city+centre+map+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of embedded links and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent, likely to lure users to external sites.
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.ru/pify?keyword=cardiff+city+centre+map+pdf In PDF document text
- http://jazagivu.rampantoutdoor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775795/6250106.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.gunnersquillshedgehogs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408117/be7e3dd9a.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.tlc-travels.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738993/rugosazevesuz_tebawumujonalov.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/1/0433/0032/3486/files/vovibekumarep.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1888/7073/files/59480783046.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0608/2717/files/pulexaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0441/2583/files/55334022053.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5603/7017/files/tujusomefukisowamesudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2181/1362/files/1990668549.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2640/7843/files/2162196227.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0346/0259/files/maria_west_side_story_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2892/3046/files/61722269429.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1682/1672/files/fefuzewopuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4602/files/zedonisimomifipifito.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/56991990713.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6768/6558/files/wordly_wise_3000_book_8_answer_key_download.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2412/9946/files/96614650000.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 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off000057d0.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57D0 | 5096 bytes |
SHA-256: 4da340cb1639594e2e483f265c8ae701edae92eb256dd09c1a98d421bff921a7 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00006917.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6917 | 15208 bytes |
SHA-256: df8841d7988f28b647099495c262afe48ae2122fda60218a1c5d80d09d4223e9 |
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