Malware Insights
The PDF file contains numerous links, a technique often used in SEO spam or phishing campaigns. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=counselling+psychology+a+textbook+for+study+and+practice+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The presence of many external links, including to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.
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.ru/pify?keyword=counselling+psychology+a+textbook+for+study+and+practice+pdf
- http://files.woodlandsfrenchies.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383553/buvomagedax_dopiriveluk.pdf
- http://fikoka.infinitely-natural.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164312/c3ab280ac299076.pdf
- http://files.pointblankdesignstudio.co.za/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813818/kixasizo.pdf
- http://files.makingagoodlifebetter.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607544/2d88ef7b73a.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9930/6648/files/35281637405.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9309/8660/files/remafunijonisakat.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/juvukoletadiwak.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1586/2434/files/17689976041.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/nevukamowuzebejelezu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/pimalovow.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/92592129567.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3087/files/stock_market_lessons_for_beginners.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5928/0022/files/12966480523.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8090/8951/files/43029527909.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2270/4030/files/37693014018.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1887/8114/files/classical_mechanics_taylor_solutions_manual_free.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_off00006644.bina9abee9122177ef8f8ec59e1a834872963ececbbb144b35b9e283fc6add75231 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6644 | 5696 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000079a8.bine48898c2426961413691adabe7381c4052832b88831f036e0b2fbfb73f91cc68 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79A8 | 10656 bytes |
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