MALICIOUS
214
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link
The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references a search query for 'journey to the center of the earth illustrated pdf'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with many links hosted on cdn.shopify.com, though most of these appear benign. A medium heuristic suggests a callback phishing lure, consistent with the redirection attempt. The primary attack vector appears to be luring the user to click a link that leads to malicious infrastructure.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 6
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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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Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINKPDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
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Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LUREDocument asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
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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/wb?keyword=journey%20to%20the%20center%20of%20the%20earth%20illustrated%20pdf In PDF document text
- http://veniziro.aghsband.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607240/fexosumusanago_godaguxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2511/2988/files/1077563483.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9875/8557/files/duvosaxodazafan.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4101/3412/files/85865269464.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9180/2777/files/67121098552.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2905/9991/files/satllite_canceling_stuck_tasks_runnnning.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5035/9194/files/pobixajiba.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6649/8965/files/5865966838.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8526/7097/files/ashokan_farewell_violin_duet.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/5532/2012/files/bemikumusiguxelejofaba.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/gulezibetikewudinulapogi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4827/9970/files/72324267556.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5868/3291/files/wuwotora.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7122/3446/files/vikebakitu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off00006b74.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B74 | 5216 bytes |
SHA-256: 4b48544c0caeb72db63d333d1a27d4cca446ba42b0a2275194a80062a83a3da7 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00007d2c.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D2C | 9204 bytes |
SHA-256: 6ad1f5e98defc5678c84bfbe00148da1a7fa89bf0b6e27fa1af1d974f351693d |
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font_02_sfnt_off00009c91.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C91 | 4324 bytes |
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361 |
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