Malware Insights
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to obscure malicious destinations. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=connect+financial+accounting+chapter+3+answers'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to financial accounting and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link under the guise of finding answers. The file is generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool that can be used to create PDFs from web content, further supporting the idea of a web-based lure.
Heuristics 3
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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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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=connect+financial+accounting+chapter+3+answers
- http://rivakara.businesssolutionsbydesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/8644589.pdf
- http://files.asttowing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438379/lawin-rikixegowudi-kusunego.pdf
- http://fubavata.glfenterprisesstone.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164406/lasodafotis_fozodopo_tinatizozatevaj.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/50878135704.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5465/2822/files/original_1830_book_of_mormon.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0545/1174/files/72560681262.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/3948/9953/files/47115959415.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9635/files/velotaluwodikarakipexu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3264/0679/files/67366530753.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2297/4117/files/31018122193.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6646/6216/files/fejajepipinajoxu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0707/4723/files/15193729192.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1627/2547/files/information_literacy_definition_government.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4423/9510/files/mevuvef.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5623/3638/files/41869465308.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_off00006e29.binf998a7332374024a5944080c4bd8cebbca414b2fe986c3ac38bc8b85b2d8cc7a |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E29 | 5440 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000080b1.binfc0847a09c0e8f39d45165409ac8cff220b935bb61a77b0fce80a8b4aac8f75f |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80B1 | 10488 bytes |
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