MALICIOUS
150
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a prominent link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is disguised as a government apprenticeship marksheet validation. The document also features a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
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.com/pify?keyword=apprenticeship+gov+pages+marksheet+validate
- http://padurotut.incubator143.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379394/4068087.pdf
- http://pikitin.goodnote.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/kuferogo.pdf
- http://dafolev.smokeandhoneylocalproducts.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682052/tuwitobivoj_jusixodul_xodujazadita_wotagarasom.pdf
- http://files.scenicrimoptometrists.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407315/zikusuwe.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7079/0558/files/temperature_sensing_devices.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3459/0888/files/mewebepumuriwokel.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7182/2229/files/zipukas.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6831/8105/files/kovetixekiviruzoxo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4392/9757/files/parallel_lines_worksheet_algebra_1.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7309/3288/files/71808694801.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7344/5788/files/12094822563.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9585/4997/files/blitzer_algebra_and_trigonometry_4th_edition.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4809/8209/files/selozag.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3564/0487/files/diwali_festival_images_free.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4210/6518/files/municipal_solid_waste_to_energy.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00006517.bina2d7384946036dc63ba8e79f4678e9d44a65724a3947e9021b5adcc6009b804e |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6517 | 5600 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000077f2.bind3f9ac8dae6a929f4fb971d5b6869dd6b2dff0407753facde21110fce0ad7399 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77F2 | 16260 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off0000aa66.bined9937e91153afe866a086f87cf7d6ab3ffaa03412575658b7e2ebb25172f529 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA66 | 8576 bytes |
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