MALICIOUS
152
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=introduction+to+ancient+greek+philosophy+pdf'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or scam campaign, attempting to lure users with a seemingly benign document title. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.
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=introduction+to+ancient+greek+philosophy+pdf
- http://files.inharmonyliving.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739783/gasabol.pdf
- http://files.asubmersible.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874046/4d0a7d6b8a295bd.pdf
- http://files.kathryntabb.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383325/rowanasaduwo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5505/5002/files/81305873221.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4489/6917/files/12824939058.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5109/0077/files/97516062658.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7732/7265/files/49992316140.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kevesuladufutaniwor.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9770/2046/files/tipufu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5598/9404/files/gawaleboxuroxopipe.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0742/6216/files/wubotavutepo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6898/7294/files/again_fma_lyrics.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9712/1178/files/77275050691.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7896/5656/files/52339643409.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1814/9285/files/how_to_use_msi_afterburner.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_off0000b3b8.bin29401bf4dc66f79b42b3d6eef2ac0fe84b521a77f42a2d765fe2c0979ba12976 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B8 | 5520 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000c67e.bin03389b4247d44b829f63360a679468b167aeb8e6ecefcca0c010b4c5de16b744 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC67E | 11484 bytes |
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