Malware Insights
The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cloudstack+4.+8+installation+guide, is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the installation guide and the redirector URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 3
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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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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=cloudstack+4.+8+installation+guide
- http://files.whatisib.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380128/nijosogupuxawufozep.pdf
- http://tujawad.progressivebrick.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681946/zukojumi_tosujomupatozu_totip.pdf
- http://files.smashsomethingtulsa.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/zelanopeti.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5843/8056/files/xisopukizexedas.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7955/6504/files/56069365823.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2470/9794/files/rectification_of_errors.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2010/7424/files/64840023994.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0810/files/73631110867.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1207/7206/files/selokalolezemoxinej.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/pumuzezifororowepa.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7507/6258/files/44888202338.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nemubowakupupoda.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1187/2667/files/kidubudefatewos.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7883/4583/files/google_sheets_api_v4_example.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_off0000765f.binbcfe548e41c8d39611f65e5605227f8a06720187fab765a0a21610e65db9ca0d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x765F | 5292 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000887a.binafcdc72f4c4e1061c46cdf85c6365782befbacda023f0417cd6798083677d621 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x887A | 11064 bytes |
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