Malware Insights
The PDF contains a high number of external links, many of which are hosted on Shopify and appear to be part of a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and a Shopify URL, suggesting a lure to download further content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack.
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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Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTONDocument contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
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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=analogue+clock+template+pdf
- http://files.jennsartclass.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681443/gurokuwumofugobuw.pdf
- http://files.artouchconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437249/fbede9273fa1c.pdf
- http://files.msseniornyecounty.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438528/8184698.pdf
- http://files.lustonline.shop/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738852/sazugolokanezivenate.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8277/6729/files/questar_gas_rebate.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1094/8254/files/guwifosuxiragudixapimakik.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7424/1183/files/13702939650.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6611/1638/files/2pac_california_love_lyrics.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0812/2270/files/8851016515.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1087/2728/files/commutative_associative_and_distributive_laws_worksheet.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6518/0314/files/41072871843.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8886/1602/files/14604502857.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9829/9813/files/fuxanidigamug.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8708/5220/files/kumafuvuj.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7990/1096/files/july_month_current_affairs_2020_oliveboard.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2620/3302/files/25717976463.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0211/6772/files/57587664320.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/
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off000064d1.bin4fada1fe533de42d8aab27cef234ba93267dbed596a99f51cb06bf060cfbee70 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64D1 | 5252 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000076ab.bin7ab31d63d35d7d712201ed280b4d714a42a073616db76b84fc4c25f43ae8506f |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76AB | 10212 bytes |
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