Malware Insights
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external sites, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to creating a MySQL database in WAMP server, likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of numerous PDF links, including a link farm, suggests a campaign to distribute malicious content through SEO manipulation.
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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Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTONDocument contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
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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/wb?keyword=how%20to%20create%20mysql%20database%20in%20wamp%20server%20pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.msunorthfarm.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874162/990294c.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.kcmga.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410009/zilotal.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.sunshinejeremiahwolfe.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682040/9248942.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.gaddyshackranch.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712251/8763356.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.sawmlian.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/vutejepasaratoz_nikan.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/1/0440/7705/6165/files/xuvuwesejewobituxazimaka.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1813/3405/files/addis_ababa_city_road_authority.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5013/8784/files/15914197896.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9806/2491/files/rebaleguferedibekig.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2344/8736/files/397818077.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9453/9429/files/maplelegends_bishop_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7892/7014/files/83077715366.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0016/8597/files/41236519013.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6325/0839/files/sign_in_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0173/2520/files/metabolomics_lecture.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9115/6380/files/luwige.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6155/7913/files/catalogo_de_cuentas_de_una_empresa_comercial.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_off0000613b.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x613B | 5784 bytes |
SHA-256: 0f131378ba883cfdbbd2279e42f4c3dd42b764111516a3fc3a89f397584ce139 |
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font_01_sfnt_off000074df.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74DF | 10312 bytes |
SHA-256: 777b08c5335b485b03f3225a18b5b452e9c155e39bdf3a9a9c5c3c848acbc36c |
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