MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'the fairy-tale detectives' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious behavior observed is the redirection to a potentially harmful site.
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=the+fairy-+tale+detectives In PDF document text
- http://files.your-ghost-writer.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380052/zajujomizo-wabone-pewejubowixep-jupipixal.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.911bodyresq.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776118/natarudul-wasawebi-pifag-nisaneneduk.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.shoerepairbocaraton.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378953/7dab5.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.scholasticgrads.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606331/06449d29fa.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/1/0430/9241/0525/files/dizowesanudid.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6668/6617/files/pekovivamolurefamajonab.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2644/6496/files/67815863472.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9544/0040/files/93566497630.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9802/1793/files/the_thrill_of_the_chase_by_forrest_fenn.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4555/1271/files/69266129795.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9434/3829/files/rufusanatonibik.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6844/8152/files/bimugoxeniwitevu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1013/0073/files/26263361998.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7152/7330/files/356131385.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2746/2301/files/71416150096.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5110/3894/files/mortal_kombat_moves.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/tidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4314/4355/files/rileferubitumapesulinepub.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9687/3885/files/breath_of_the_wild_stalnox.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_off00006e58.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E58 | 5252 bytes |
SHA-256: d4425909a37adf9b9c1cf55c7680faa8e6a6908638abf827be9a2286518e1472 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00008044.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8044 | 9768 bytes |
SHA-256: 89cd1ecf1a312d7a7bd73a97a3e1176c6ac6e29f5a90a71987a2a400ea0a4489 |
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