MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggers the redirector, indicating a social engineering lure related to 'bancassurance in zimbabwe'. No scripts were extracted from this sample.
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.com/pify?keyword=bancassurance+in+zimbabwe+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.rethinkreframerelax.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379596/d755e75.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.mckinleylaw.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438583/numelu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://visela.topproductcomparisons.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/nebofobobisewu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.mattmonfettlaxcamp.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969356/86e975613988f.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9760/2713/files/sajejaga.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/4457974180.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/tripel_x_soundtrack.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9799/0055/files/25433236083.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9105/8083/files/89217504437.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9587/6003/files/giwuwepidozozimin.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5631/7091/files/sasagesopepopekebunasobo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8555/3061/files/31088938101.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4235/4853/files/names_of_animals_and_their_young_ones.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4872/9766/files/honeywell_window_fan.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6132/1634/files/psychogenic_non_epileptic_seizures.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9956/2911/files/wojavevibuzojo.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
Extracted artifacts 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off00005466.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5466 | 5292 bytes |
SHA-256: b17a06bf49694c1ad5879fe21a5d0b73d98bf8a9e49dc8cf42b719b6bab83c0b |
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font_01_sfnt_off00006658.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6658 | 10688 bytes |
SHA-256: af42c0af56c153ca31e56f561c5743763bf7012510a4ab43eeac6a957b0ba585 |
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font_02_sfnt_off00008ac7.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AC7 | 4324 bytes |
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361 |
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