MALICIOUS
242
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a link to a known malicious redirector and a link farm. The document body and heuristics suggest a lure to install a browser extension or download content, with a prominent link to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=adobe+acrobat+reader+edit+pdf+free'. This indicates a social engineering attack aiming to trick the user into visiting a malicious site.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 7
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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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Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LUREDocument tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
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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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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.ru/pify?keyword=adobe+acrobat+reader+edit+pdf+free In PDF document text
- http://files.kokuabehavioralhealth.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164176/67eb7f46307f965.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gojux.advocatesfordiversity.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/334f3b21a464.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.tlcsupply.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775174/16a2cf0071f9d.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.emaratshipping.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969993/1631a7714.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.mystarsandstripes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776016/741037.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8734/0454/files/2543825088.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3926/8774/files/fundamentals_of_calculus.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3284/5207/files/zadakuroxufa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5769/3347/files/athens_metro_map_english.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5801/1035/files/90116706185.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3187/1139/files/all_creatures_great_and_small_james_herriot_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1231/6584/files/dazugiwulukizani.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3058/4213/files/gibukuwakewiware.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8482/3205/files/67171018958.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4915/5740/files/28382329612.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
- http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 4
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off00007723.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7723 | 5236 bytes |
SHA-256: 29a88c7496b0c3ffac777a833e1e7d9af63a0e682d1191a478c4f7b25fc256e7 |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000898d.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x898D | 5068 bytes |
SHA-256: c98e0b9e6a6da610345d1000db13b0a27e99824858dc87d7d220dd598505bf7e |
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font_02_sfnt_off00009ada.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9ADA | 14784 bytes |
SHA-256: 794c6d3a99cd37080d9ee7ed0ffc0f8174ea5826d07e1db8a3efd880e39ed53d |
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font_03_sfnt_off0000c3ea.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3EA | 16488 bytes |
SHA-256: d6cec5d81403a3d70faea1540ef19555465bc704c2477342a2b01c02bc8a8e2b |
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