Malware Insights
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.
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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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
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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
- http://veniziro.aghsband.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607240/fexosumusanago_godaguxuw.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2511/2988/files/1077563483.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9875/8557/files/duvosaxodazafan.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4101/3412/files/85865269464.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9180/2777/files/67121098552.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2905/9991/files/satllite_canceling_stuck_tasks_runnnning.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5035/9194/files/pobixajiba.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6649/8965/files/5865966838.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8526/7097/files/ashokan_farewell_violin_duet.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/5532/2012/files/bemikumusiguxelejofaba.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/gulezibetikewudinulapogi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4827/9970/files/72324267556.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5868/3291/files/wuwotora.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7122/3446/files/vikebakitu.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_off00006b74.bin4b48544c0caeb72db63d333d1a27d4cca446ba42b0a2275194a80062a83a3da7 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B74 | 5216 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007d2c.bin6ad1f5e98defc5678c84bfbe00148da1a7fa89bf0b6e27fa1af1d974f351693d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D2C | 9204 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off00009c91.bin1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C91 | 4324 bytes |
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