Malware Insights
The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.com'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, likely as a method to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary malicious URL. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector and link farm strongly suggests a phishing or social engineering attack aimed at directing users to harmful content.
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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Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LUREDocument contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
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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/wix?keyword=bushcraft+richard+graves+pdf
- https://chrismolloy.com/bushcraft
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7964/7903/files/93245659984.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1715/0368/files/8683634035.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5427/7532/files/zupefun.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8945/3473/files/zexakoluzawi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4911/5029/files/75741610357.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9559/5938/files/81682712780.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1608/5916/files/41833161153.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/27347714529.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/75395993599.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5041/6793/files/customer_service_interview_questions_and_answers_orange.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9814/4932/files/53344148345.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7207/0556/files/zetibadobategusuv.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71061356311.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00007cb4.bind26d97a7b1d02cb089ca8b5d1cc513946d2136a47116564a9a07d12a4341eb1d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB4 | 5160 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00008e63.bin0ed0b0f1b68b664f975e091f1ba269b012dfff822ccc58d6289360df4403ecf2 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E63 | 10328 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off0000b1b3.bind1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1B3 | 4324 bytes |
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