MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF file was identified as malicious due to its structure containing a large number of external links, a technique often used in SEO link farms to manipulate search rankings or distribute malicious content. One critical heuristic specifically flagged it as a 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK', pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=campaign+meaning+pdf', which is a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The file's purpose appears to be to lure users into clicking these links, which likely lead to further malicious sites.
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=campaign+meaning+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.intentionalenrichment.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814874/mipavuw_pejiripomosuf_zowivixux.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
- http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7916/4314/files/25743046417.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6141/8913/files/behavioural_ecology_an_evolutionary_approach.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6961/2966/files/nirugolusi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/56870817777.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9268/0605/files/48103224087.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5581/5583/files/bahadur_shah_1_information.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5258/files/tosidepudi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5032/8486/files/20787464793.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2796/9686/files/kiwinikimapoxuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1715/9335/files/bio_free.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
- http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
- http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign:
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6 samples
Extracted artifacts 6
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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stream_003_off000061df.bin |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x61DF | 13252 bytes |
SHA-256: dbb4a8b0e7af5cf8272bbaad3aadea34878c9ce453d164dd72f74cde3cc7a4ac |
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font_01_sfnt_off00008ccc.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CCC | 4676 bytes |
SHA-256: db5f8c8fca0c14d5a6c04a7a6209cf89f18a33ebd9e8235eff6047926488d850 |
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font_02_sfnt_off00009c8e.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C8E | 9796 bytes |
SHA-256: a8cb3a8f890e97dc79c9534bb540e98a1da1f0f3c57b17bf54bed01d4c149056 |
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font_03_sfnt_off0000b7fe.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7FE | 10844 bytes |
SHA-256: fbb54c0a56bdf820a07a6e1b1541f1d59f023126ca5e1560e9821eccf4aab9d3 |
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font_04_sfnt_off0000dd3b.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3B | 17476 bytes |
SHA-256: 17855735673a29c88710480ecd39a453f25f4ee877539cd13855857389c32955 |
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font_05_sfnt_off0000f758.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF758 | 4324 bytes |
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f |
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