MALICIOUS
234
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link. The embedded URL `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=phonics+activities+for+older+students+pdf` is likely the initial lure. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 6
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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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PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINKPDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
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Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINKPDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
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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=phonics+activities+for+older+students+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.calvarybaptistemporia.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437983/ea0ea18dcabf6.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.petalsfromabelovedbridesbouquet.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398134/bapobulubi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://repetab.taberlawgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437462/7635130.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.gravelroadhome.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070246/worep.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7605/8274/files/37279614968.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7514/1783/files/metodo_filosofico_fisico_ontologico.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7938/5756/files/67432151641.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1130/9719/files/51285313739.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1257/0787/files/acquisition_vs_learning.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0050/4217/files/convert_vmdk_to_vhdx.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4834/3464/files/alchemist_food_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7285/4939/files/lua_c_roblox_scripts.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1224/4134/files/80054297224.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7196/2269/files/12103534999.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5529/2317/files/vuxinarik.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/4385/0149/files/biosystematics_and_taxonomy.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6803/8049/files/gadolafaxibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3495/9256/files/60391235339.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off0000770b.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x770B | 5304 bytes |
SHA-256: 4701406615282a97c3319dd18f4a2f0c0ec0d98227ef843817b9ce9ec2873c3f |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000890d.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x890D | 10024 bytes |
SHA-256: 537e9c38891250c049b2a58e8610b4e809af7d64bb5d69a0541df7f6dd872ad0 |
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