MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDFs hosted on various domains, including a significant number on cdn.shopify.com. One of the primary links, however, directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also 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/wix?keyword=merton+s+modes+of+adaptation
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3440/files/kifuwonewudalaz.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/pebekozapiputanifozizazev.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7103/6822/files/dojobetigisij.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/086daf_22c5df49bf0346fb9dd9e660cd3f9a5a.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d68f497758a34a4bbeac80a33f96c643.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_528317447e284e2898b0305cc4846d9f.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/824332_4529d0f142474d5cbf37b87f3993f3de.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7471/4790/files/pefonugexizudos.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4081/5774/files/48126880216.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3461/5706/files/17769602286.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0337/8839/files/39977475660.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6762/9730/files/62622849065.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_8a19f0eed1324cc4b55cbfb7854612f7.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_51e91eb0de62423aa4af0e6ac28e5b22.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0fdb6d_7f8e39b7c90e45119c0388f0ddbb9b8f.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/003b86_a474f2b1775d4ddbaa25ab85ff13846d.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_off00006585.bin4c8b9efdef56c5f16118997689433733525cadd810e2eec3ecb2d81d4fdfb610 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6585 | 5160 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000076fc.binc1771541db561d1b2ba2cd0ea21a6503d21113e3489e5a719225d9f1854a9495 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76FC | 9644 bytes |
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