MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=elements+of+news+reporting'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site for phishing or malware delivery. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted from this sample.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 5
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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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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.cc/pify?keyword=elements+of+news+reporting In PDF document text
- http://milep.willowindstudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406344/rukulumoxevenonija.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.cubrajackpot.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683135/sajavabut.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/1/0431/3019/2039/files/mean_value_theorem_for_derivatives.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6416/4506/files/zobava.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9938/2170/files/mapa_cajon_del_maipo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3092/0871/files/age_of_war_empires_3_mod_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1871/4264/files/javascript_tutorial_complete.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9417/2058/files/95175420129.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/3779381268.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2534/9283/files/xexel.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9456/5271/files/14560772126.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7266/files/72340659421.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9503/8877/files/sateriparidotumafaze.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6071/4904/files/41799709514.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6921/0773/files/romurimusirixusibo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8289/8840/files/2989445266.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_off0000671d.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x671D | 4848 bytes |
SHA-256: a4861a2e26b3c463cb2db36ef19b948af1b2b4964f699a0b9380561295fa8e1d |
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font_01_sfnt_off00007797.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7797 | 9748 bytes |
SHA-256: 8c9cabcbda8d15538e0e8f29b66f5e19e641561c3607993a07cf2e084a9f7e0d |
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font_02_sfnt_off000098ec.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98EC | 4324 bytes |
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230 |
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