Malware Insights
The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=veronica+guerin+soundtrack, suggesting a lure related to the 'Veronica guerin soundtrack'. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to distribute malicious content.
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=veronica+guerin+soundtrack
- http://mowad.tremontsports.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/ff0b3605e5e.pdf
- http://files.sheltiesalberta.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874585/9574119.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/67062005494.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7532/1499/files/8859358878.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5099/0753/files/sidunuwugi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8785/4749/files/50289152826.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4875/4600/files/dog_faced_water_snake_care_sheet.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8062/1984/files/suvokoladasosutemekuro.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0379/7916/files/the_art_of_war_arabic.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3983/4791/files/15163800010.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1713/2442/files/rakadotuberoja.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_off000054d2.binfd69cf8e16e63e0a2f31ea33ee7c5ec715be7a3638fff14cd906b8b72f26a910 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54D2 | 4988 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off000065d2.bind9155054308577a2116d8ce4c3c9a1ad6eec507c74e401e7438a9a4c775765b8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65D2 | 10672 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off00008a16.bin1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A16 | 4324 bytes |
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