MALICIOUS
152
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a lure related to 'The Guardian Simon Baker episode guide' and embeds a significant number of external links, many hosted on Shopify. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=the+guardian+simon+baker+episode+guide', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 4
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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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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=the+guardian+simon+baker+episode+guide
- http://files.alfredmontessori.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739062/gekarutabemev_daraxit.pdf
- http://files.cascadiamotion.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813692/tixukujirokupaj.pdf
- http://files.nmwordprocessing.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874252/xapeminofafaf-vuxijoninis-kejetopo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5106/3195/files/likibuponi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3423/7345/files/18864038353.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0372/2398/files/lusakotemunopudexunopuwuw.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0546/7035/files/cambridge_mathematics_dictionary.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0645/9029/files/46993503230.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/widonoxarasibuturugava.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5348/2135/files/how_to_install_opencv_in_ubuntu.pdf
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off000090eb.binc8e5eadb9cb03f9f71e4bb56cdda054f3d169c4c6d0b9136e1cee672ec1f8968 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90EB | 5496 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000a36e.bin36cf296fa62e0b59a06def9252a3745d2b1b41d70fa2c105ba265bec03cb66b5 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA36E | 10260 bytes |
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