Malware Insights
The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary URL leads to a redirector that appears to be part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create malicious PDFs. The presence of multiple Shopify-hosted PDF links, some confirmed benign and others unknown, suggests an attempt to blend malicious content with seemingly legitimate resources.
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/wb?keyword=vitamins%20and%20minerals%20demystified%20pdf
- http://files.ksah.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775747/tosefege-mijowud-lotusakipugizad.pdf
- http://files.madebyloulou.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871891/59bfb6ba928ffb6.pdf
- http://files.lesliepetersonsapp.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740747/kukeni-junamunokeligaf.pdf
- http://files.kdhodges.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740321/5360778.pdf
- http://files.friendsofhastingscountrypark.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739366/bevapejilu.pdf
- http://files.kdhodges.com/uploads/1/3
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/73965634741.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3229/0215/files/xulasarefexi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0149/4178/files/10488219752.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3484/5079/files/17863581091.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8341/5204/files/pokawufezomaf.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9888/0680/files/bavorunarojaw.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2652/9956/files/gevukopekoniramelinoxipo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8245/7000/files/6172285624.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4441/3350/files/36266398970.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0221/5074/files/gujijoliwido.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kumug.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1470/9663/files/pupesibixumejor.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_off00005762.binb65e148151f5815724eee1aea666038395e6299bf4751c0fad46660928a79586 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5762 | 4932 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000680a.bin4abe8eef977ba7670b612024321f5f3a313979dc2022da781eafc9628a9204bd |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x680A | 9368 bytes |
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