Malware Insights
The PDF file contains a deceptive title suggesting an answer key for a virtual lab, which is a common social engineering tactic. It embeds numerous links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=calorimetry+virtual+lab+worksheet+answer+key'. This redirector likely leads to a further malicious payload or phishing site. The file also contains a large number of links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or 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.cc/pify?keyword=calorimetry+virtual+lab+worksheet+answer+key
- http://files.vvphotography.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453615/c526b2c7938.pdf
- http://files.woodridgeswimclub.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383754/minagosawupazud.pdf
- http://files.team-revo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739415/e64a050a82e77.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/kefaxalojowo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5508/6742/files/16170533508.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6026/5117/files/munirixisinukapud.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8111/3506/files/coded_with_love.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4615/1078/files/atlantic_codex.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6120/5399/files/6698227386.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0789/3919/files/21108184830.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70913092576.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2917/6232/files/zuwelidirom.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/3421/9420/files/bulk_modulus_of_elasticity.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2950/3901/files/gegog.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0191/3244/files/salexoso.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_off0000642e.bin1dbdbc1a31b1d940ebe5332c92f762ba256349a01a05fd80ad6771fc0a429670 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x642E | 5288 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000761d.bine9a30bbd05a0d7e8af9fd8af69dd40c4e00503b0027f6f7582a705e5a9e8dedc |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x761D | 10136 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off000098d3.bin0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98D3 | 4324 bytes |
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