MALICIOUS
214
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Cherokee county nc arrest report', suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious links. The presence of numerous PDF links and a malicious redirector indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 6
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LUREDocument asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
-
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.
-
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=cherokee+county+nc+arrest+report In PDF document text
- http://files.observatoryproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071258/846212.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.energeticmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740571/2463710.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.creative-works-intl-media.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740298/3261605.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://lufalolin.georgiestaight.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163864/9595701.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/1/0433/7896/6686/files/tazapixapisirumiguxiri.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7327/2998/files/creative_writing_worksheets_ks3.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0202/6393/files/vakikoladupakuzida.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0957/1989/files/belar.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8575/8617/files/xatimaxexugek.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9382/7485/files/98199732037.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7087/4009/files/54610881491.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7959/0048/files/baal_veer_video_free_mp4.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3432/8735/files/cosatto_zoomi_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4315/8166/files/tilig.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1404/5341/files/bokaworapexiwupagurazuman.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2465/4241/files/bear_file_converter.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9445/0082/files/anti_competitive_agreements.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3229/0215/files/9407870847.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
🗂 Part of campaign:
brockportmall.com
3 samples
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00005d1b.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D1B | 5060 bytes |
SHA-256: 1f613310e5bac6532d7e8c8e296579f1cd8699a38ee01288bd73c6c7a0efcb7a |
|||
font_01_sfnt_off00006e51.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E51 | 10064 bytes |
SHA-256: 16429b702215d4b80042404d55de8fa3149b61d463dab8102958837815fb8ad9 |
|||
Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.