Malware Insights
The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=macro+sociological+theories+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to a PDF about sociological theories. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern is redirection to a malicious site.
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.cc/pify?keyword=macro+sociological+theories+pdf
- http://rewabav.quenchmemphis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775971/rowip_vurib_tusajip_pinapumifejaze.pdf
- http://files.ghyti.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814112/3673351.pdf
- http://files.operationwisdom.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437919/rizezev_jupidimido.pdf
- http://files.ope
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6172/9685/files/27937070683.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0549/2904/files/revista_natura_ciclo_10_2020_argentina.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6642/4470/files/rexun.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7865/5903/files/jigolo_har_megiddo_lyrics.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/noviwuvado.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4363/2805/files/cm_list_of_gujarat.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7243/8947/files/56100680828.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8152/1565/files/dsm_5_borderline_personality_disorder.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8850/1143/files/62671346312.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/game_theory_business_strategy.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7157/8007/files/astm_a1064m.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9541/5189/files/2885229724.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_off000063a6.bin3f00f666312894803bda6d5e46374d1c3931bf2ac9d4a08e6212837535f1339a |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63A6 | 5424 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000761b.bin9202dbfbd255e4076014647f7a8377f859d79007f5219bc8176b3c59ff7e4147 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x761B | 10288 bytes |
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