Malware Insights
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link, and another highlights a 'browser extension/update installation lure' social engineering tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'phishing email templates html' and includes the malicious redirector URL, reinforcing the phishing lure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a further stage of the attack.
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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Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LUREDocument tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
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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=phishing+email+templates+html
- http://wewifow.therapistsmap.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/8530a706.pdf
- http://pafudinun.406northvbclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483138/wipon.pdf
- http://files.michaelchekhovcanada.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453036/87460ba.pdf
- http://files.catherinegriffith.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774993/9f562d57e262236.pdf
- http://joxoki.fbcpercy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384714/5649590.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3246/0960/files/zefukozew.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3171/4202/files/2678773358.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1596/8667/files/lubepawepo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4815/7859/files/75027143534.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6483/3686/files/93688890211.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/50306279194.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4301/9159/files/technical_drawing_12th_edition_giesecke.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3331/9831/files/73109913789.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2732/5343/files/libate.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4672/1946/files/18594820811.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1369/1799/files/ramoxulolunedimumaxiwad.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2883/0632/files/54275028048.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_off00006b66.bin8c61272468d9a7666faa0356892dca722bfabff948842076057e4a28b89d93f8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B66 | 5136 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007cb0.bin57e91e88256c7f18fc4bf9d9cd42bbac1125a06a0306949484d749613d508858 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB0 | 10212 bytes |
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