MALICIOUS
234
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but also includes a critical redirector link to ttraff.com. The document body, though garbled, appears to be a lure related to 'the theory of island biogeography', likely to disguise the malicious intent of the embedded links. The presence of a visible LOLBin command execution instruction suggests potential for further malicious activity beyond simple redirection.
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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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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LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMANDExtracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
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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.com/pify?keyword=the+theory+of+island+biogeography+1967+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.danceartsofcentralnj.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438604/4408032.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://rolopifeb.radiadoresmm.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/jekamen-dawofakamonuv-vujojesovov-nididasewi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gamafa.amplifiedmobiledj.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/lamolokanegas.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.majuljewelry.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681928/gibagabagaduz.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.acmdev.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164067/8c8f0e92cc924.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/1/0427/9504/0924/files/nijuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5702/files/9604558906.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7442/7806/files/81721130216.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9786/files/.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/3218030698.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6749/8911/files/62736985275.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9410/5509/files/taladererudenitazos.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2278/6466/files/84961857415.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0453/2648/files/52820579523.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7870/files/sidamig.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1128/4885/files/76861317564.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3101/0199/files/xamepokemejoxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9321/3855/files/xupatejesupugefunazazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0214/8510/files/gupokazixebejuburivux.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_off000067cd.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67CD | 5936 bytes |
SHA-256: 75e6eeb3a278e7f280601c526341581c854b7bdad49fa36786499ac4d1c2a596 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00007c08.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C08 | 9868 bytes |
SHA-256: b5d2cd719083cbd4502bf24eb1fc310521eb7c335faa20bb934cc4358f28e9c4 |
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