MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.com, which is used in conjunction with a keyword suggesting a lure for potentially sensitive documents. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a delivery mechanism for further malicious content.
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+economist+28+april+2020+pdf
- http://files.whitethornherbals.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969573/954346.pdf
- http://files.bunniesandbeyond.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739470/a52ec67459.pdf
- http://files.medicinalrootsmagazine.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775653/niwetor_xemipuwufexo_gujojibir_dolelaz.pdf
- http://files.medicinalrootsmagazine.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775653/niwetor_xemipu
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6508/8936/files/95773067245.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2583/3884/files/nijoravedabinuv.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4636/2527/files/64679678574.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1460/9303/files/xapofawaretemo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2022/1607/files/wixoketudaguzo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lejozusuxawunulimedobina.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/81599599528.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fapodepemiretewuroraga.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4470/9276/files/wapaxujenikep.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9524/4452/files/96649354679.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2853/7753/files/60966819629.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/30617095305.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_off00007d9e.bin58c9299d247e0476e646f3e5f190935f870d95c3c644db814a7f697111a755e7 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D9E | 5600 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00009062.bin8ad4b01fcfe92ee1499d511646d9b328174e5d9fa7e8c00cf6814a8e40e2747c |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9062 | 11024 bytes |
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