MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=difference+between+pure+and+applied+research+pdf`. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic indicates the presence of numerous external links, with the primary one being `https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9877/files/22083411405.pdf`. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool sometimes used to create malicious PDFs.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 5
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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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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=difference+between+pure+and+applied+research+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.moonlightgrahammusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637797/kofazegesig-sakapagogubad-pulagurigoriz.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.willrobinsonauthor.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871568/xatofijekorawijajoru.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.leandremeldener.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969190/3481642.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/1/0433/9249/9877/files/22083411405.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72890356131.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/11988068269.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8421/8521/files/64430892349.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9318/0070/files/76261913173.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9290/2037/files/wemuziredupo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2244/9814/files/jilevopo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5551/2738/files/vijenipelixozadisuxojuki.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7868/0727/files/94140919223.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3387/8940/files/vixopukotugemubojis.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4293/9814/files/89460267336.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3735/0309/files/2606424629.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 | 5244 bytes |
SHA-256: 6d5f614753d9b08901f2fbecf8b95d71176355ef91ce2c3cbd8f07cf154d0c48 |
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font_01_sfnt_off000088e1.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88E1 | 10032 bytes |
SHA-256: 1a195d2054da0d149ccb32a759bc6b893d7322824441662213ba9e3cb92c4dca |
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