MALICIOUS
192
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.001 Malicious Link
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to traff.com, which is a known malicious domain. It also hosts a large number of external PDF links, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to an 'Udacity social media advertising guide pdf'. The presence of a visual download button further supports a social engineering attack. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution chains.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 6
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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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Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARMSmall PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
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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.com/pify?keyword=udacity+social+media+advertising+guide+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.jjsdka.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969819/98a098cf.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.sting-likea-bee.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873838/bazuvurowadaretukab.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.guildenmordencongregationalchurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163953/sazarejadok.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.kw.ehabacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437666/3871002.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://gijubuwat.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/32041655774.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://polisixojo511032843.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/85773453325.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://fikuravere.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/gukotunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://fizedetaz.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/6903160469.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://jepanabukam.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/ritigofovavufimenasukoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://serifutaje.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/tiparokamufep.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://tinuzedujat.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/9878560112.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://takirosikut.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/44862986762.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41448402009.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1633/1172/files/75662871785.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tevedizulav.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xedatojif.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/50022645306.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/43778875991.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 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off00009acb.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9ACB | 5508 bytes |
SHA-256: cf41aedcafd9662a3c063255a74bdd09e9a73d8324f5fb6b80c45f7fb9fa202f |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000ad82.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD82 | 10484 bytes |
SHA-256: e1664f192ad6ae10b00bcff33859ecd4056d7ed3beb2146c1db2fce9b97883cc |
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