MALICIOUS
120
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=curmudgeon%2527s+guide+to+practicing+law'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'Curmudgeon's guide to practicing law' and the redirector URL also references this topic, suggesting a lure. The presence of a large number of SEO-optimized PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious redirector.
Heuristics 3
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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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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/wix?keyword=curmudgeon%2527s+guide+to+practicing+law
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7345/2697/files/gdiplus_dll_missing.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9464/5672/files/21652907042.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9094/3902/files/pizivilobavewavuwas.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0206/8122/files/84190856838.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0799/1208/files/appalachian_trail_hiking_guide_book.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/figetovatadip.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5740/4318/files/database_case_study_examples_with_solutions.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5860/9817/files/enter_sand_man_guitar_tab.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8544/6822/files/superlative_adjectives_examples.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7100/files/fake_newspaper_front_page_template.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0728/7206/files/tefaromabu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3015/files/tizasepesikuse.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9097/5645/files/nokijotepudarovonebibi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0486/9277/files/sedagavo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2767/7852/files/56365540495.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0517/4183/files/vujinefop.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/4437/5450/files/beginners_guide_to_gymnastics.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_off0000547a.binb305b7e0d111f9d228875326e79371d30be29c32ebde7b02315d99ec291350d4 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x547A | 5424 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000066e9.bin1201667937936ec5442c090b281bab605159cd4b6c393f8bd8e90f62db4f60c8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66E9 | 10088 bytes |
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