MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as 'Forrester research reports', indicating a social engineering lure. The PDF also hosts a link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, one of which is also present in the document body. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 4
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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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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=forrester+research+reports
- http://files.sycamorebandandorchestra.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874065/b1f74.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6830/1212/files/hotel_standard_operating_procedures.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/10576363223.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6508/8936/files/wovezimitozoga.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2659/3445/files/26646436233.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8105/6935/files/sodusezufojawexuwopexiwu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9234/2939/files/relevance_and_admissibility_of_evidence.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5339/7654/files/96672231747.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0223/2983/files/30732338434.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1868/8424/files/66616238062.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9008/1960/files/vafapuwajexisatukewita.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0167/5939/files/fululuxoxufagi.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_off00005be0.bin31680fd5f70de1cc1a0b6a849b1eeb09e5d6274327e212f58d3fc4a0754e101d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BE0 | 4944 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00006cae.bin81a36e11a57c802481d86fbcc68b0cbf5f215d36818dc3751993412aadc8138b |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CAE | 10192 bytes |
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