Malware Insights
The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically `ttraff.com`, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure related to 'accounting questions and answers' and a 'download button', suggesting a social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, further supports the SEO link farm heuristic, indicating an attempt to manipulate search results for malicious purposes.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 8
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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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Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISHDocument impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=accounting+questions+and+answers+pdf+free+download.
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Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LUREDocument contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
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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=accounting+questions+and+answers+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
- http://files.collaboratoryshows.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740553/9991933.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.canterburynuts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874213/zalepu_xumamasepo_jenapolij_nelawovude.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.aceachieversourlearninghub.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164273/burufowu-wunexu-vababosatoj.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/1/0432/2574/3521/files/52853497606.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5335/1066/files/64284856455.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92283418618.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9132/9173/files/berutokulirurafelovuba.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8049/9879/files/rukuregewibunutox.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9509/5464/files/official_certified_ethical_hacker.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/pogivifaxufiwalonon.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6063/3493/files/75602316034.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7817/9221/files/57283378431.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8918/9272/files/juzewawojatuwapotix.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5880/files/jowedoniwagup.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3159/2102/files/agatha_christie.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_off0000e7d2.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D2 | 5528 bytes |
SHA-256: e1b38c2e6955748f69a634cf398b8a28427d5a2d4dc10a0562ab69845e7fc5da |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000fabf.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABF | 10836 bytes |
SHA-256: a57a1e9bd8a95f92c06fadea136d809be883de778b8bebd434ff9411aae15776 |
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