MALICIOUS
128
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a high number of external links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and a reference to a 'case study pdf file', suggesting a lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack. The primary goal appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure via the 'ttraff.com' link.
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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Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTONDocument contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
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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/pify?keyword=case+study+pdf+file
- http://xuvosiv.ucomm.org.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739220/datuvow.pdf
- http://bupadof.softcinch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380504/dd7776096a0e34b.pdf
- http://files.genevieveash.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814166/8439158.pdf
- http://files.libertystatetroopers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775871/4602233.pdf
- http://tunil.lcooperillustration.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739751/6de52b4e53f3776.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4669/9165/files/numpy_count_nonzero.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7633/files/texas_driver_handbook.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3810/4985/files/simone_de_beauvoir_feminismo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/7858/2171/files/cytopathology_review_guide.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0756/6239/files/ccie_sp_written_dumps.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3641/6936/files/adobe_photoshop_cs6_cracken.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2042/5115/files/certyfikat_kompetencji_zawodowych_przewonika_drogowego_ksika.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0591/9903/files/89616592079.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6240/9881/files/77530700240.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8909/3018/files/42714879415.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2457/9736/files/27997999511.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3493/3408/files/fudutapafujanunel.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_off00007cce.bin1d1fd5c02889826a0a7f41d4e444fa5a12fdbbaa5669036f38da48bc7f367553 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CCE | 4948 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00008dbc.binb954dc9a1971bb160d1a40997c59b1de3f83b94cb548c7e85c95c1cf0ac1f53a |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DBC | 10176 bytes |
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