Malware Insights
The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Performance appraisal hrm definition' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure related to employment or performance reviews. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to obscure the ultimate destination. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=performance+appraisal+hrm+definition, which redirects to further content.
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/pify?keyword=performance+appraisal+hrm+definition
- http://files.jlmhomeimprovement.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740836/nezolelum_nusake_mufamezi.pdf
- http://files.cantonfitnesscenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438437/7434290.pdf
- http://files.mrksmathhelp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454345/tebikotuzez.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9535/files/kathi_bgm_kuttyweb.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3298/4222/files/cataracte_congnitale.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5365/2895/files/am_modulation_and_demodulation.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8962/5241/files/23387886445.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0402/files/50547330627.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0923/6374/files/soteferododifotulilax.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2269/6096/files/safugurado.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4367/5560/files/12907264254.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6080/4249/files/ielts_academic_writing_task_2_sample_answer_band_9.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2441/1806/files/baricco_iliade.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97253363073.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4606/7621/files/27629269263.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0118/4417/files/webot.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off000061c0.bin9a04463219bb92a64799af0a9fc8e369fef2d904c6b56e9211abc46c8a5133a6 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61C0 | 5184 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000731f.bin832d53f38b3e23e3312c38cffbeda0744571c6bfec747a6c5cc8ca45d2201970 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x731F | 10392 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off000096a6.bin4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96A6 | 4324 bytes |
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