MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a Cisco Press CCIE Routing and Switching PDF. This link leads to a link farm hosted on Shopify, which likely serves as a distribution point for further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links points to a SEO-based lure tactic.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
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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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.com/pify?keyword=cisco+press+ccie+routing+and+switching+pdf
- http://files.rachaeleggebeen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379699/4441637.pdf
- http://files.socapital.co.nz/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738512/woxotonisudiz.pdf
- http://files.shadesofdenimaus.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/cfc898.pdf
- http://files.somosescritores.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483097/nubemuzak-vusimipusewav-gozukipox.pdf
- http://files.creativeescapeworkshops.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636980/gagumipitutej.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1627/3563/files/tanubib.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7678/8117/files/tunix.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4379/8683/files/possessive_pronouns_lesson_plan.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8452/9310/files/98746596246.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0029/7633/files/3865619373.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8750/4294/files/40796382229.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9969/2958/files/sanase.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9714/2936/files/lejile.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6845/files/walagematile.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3009/3728/files/47409878475.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8589/7627/files/34948647023.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58097506778.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5385/8472/files/bedorodo.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_off00008299.bin7baf3cf0e38262187997780cfd85c96f091e59af264320ec5d146a025b3938da |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8299 | 5380 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000094f4.bin06d4c8cc2c7f79860100f256f4a08b80d8007855908a2b765a3dec70a237dd20 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94F4 | 15688 bytes |
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