MALICIOUS
154
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a redirector URL that includes 'college application essay examples pdf'. This suggests a social engineering tactic to trick users into visiting malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a redirector link further supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution or persistence mechanisms.
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.ru/pify?keyword=college+application+essay+examples+pdf
- http://files.monumentalconcreteworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874598/xozitojigerun.pdf
- http://files.communityactionboonewinn.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681293/78b0fb1ed6.pdf
- http://files.aep-edu.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069763/4a87c55e7753.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3070/8385/files/duvunolevuniseruxapipilin.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6954/6395/files/92865541317.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/26514604491.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8960/8360/files/science_experiment_report_sample.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9938/1157/files/63978724691.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5193/2056/files/wezuwawuzavug.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1740/4573/files/fawasaxijutapaxogixenewoj.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9438/3522/files/tuxikojewebusutavifese.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0673/0144/files/business_plan_example_for_students.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8360/3876/files/towap.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0862/1719/files/mofefitipiw.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_off0000694c.binf383b546a74a02e27f292a4995aec1c89c33e7bc026282421e8597f1173b600d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x694C | 5456 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007bd6.binf2e1a77d88761d7cbcd55d288a0b3cd3284e9a781881876d6e49ad49444625ab |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BD6 | 9808 bytes |
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