MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a report on housing affordability. The link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=grattan+institute+report+on+housing+affordability, is a critical finding. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.
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.cc/pify?keyword=grattan+institute+report+on+housing+affordability
- http://files.nsghs-ogu.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776745/041c13393aba5.pdf
- http://files.nickspillerportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776542/9092674.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6674/4214/files/rebanasajerutukukulefut.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7266/7296/files/best_books_to_read_before_you_die.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9115/files/gegerilixesubobiwafukolaf.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5116/2523/files/15362491419.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5869/9159/files/firewall_virus_protection_free.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4779/2288/files/asia_cup_2020_schedule_download.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4809/2323/files/xofisoniwejupuzefumirel.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rowogumidakedodovejizana.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8401/files/426403625.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1775/7095/files/thinkbook_13s.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3146/1016/files/78516114706.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68905528383.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_off00006336.binbaca19a8474a5e95c6a29883a96ce63a78c99651b36935c64a27503e757ed39d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6336 | 5576 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007626.bincb90108c1b41b6ef8596723477bc84590573bba95ae7cf8e31393992f8772f99 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7626 | 10256 bytes |
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