Malware Insights
The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which likely serves as the initial lure. The document body contains garbled text but includes the same suspicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise or obfuscate the malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links points towards a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, potentially leading to further malicious activity.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
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/wix?keyword=touching+spirit+bear+chapter+questio
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5a77fbba861a436f9ccbe225fd91bce4.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87d215_1734ca82ca2c4893b85bf5dab43d6200.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b98abb_b796d9ee1a7d4fd1921ef91a28f1e25b.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4711/6197/files/gilitevome.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6038/7227/files/31561770268.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3473/6797/files/basic_terms_of_share_market.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6924/3549/files/que_es_el_sedentarismo.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2b09b_5baa3be97752443f88b549a79f4532d1.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_becd39dd89a347538d32df3b1e95f5a7.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ab72e_83b9d28051254ab894d49bf1e8f94bcc.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5251/4971/files/ranodefeja.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1384/1567/files/fadovitanelelibifikevat.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7262/files/mawurej.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 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off000042a7.binc7a7c03875b92bd8b9617f04098875b95d2f7b45e7819ee4e080272f0a4d9741 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42A7 | 5376 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000054e1.bin432fa7fdf429fcf6c23795cf4d267ae76ea4b9cd5bdcfd544e57374ac8181bd9 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54E1 | 9476 bytes |
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