Malware Insights
The PDF file contains a significant number of external links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary heuristic identified a large collection of external PDF links hosted on various domains, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute content or lure victims. One of the embedded URLs, http://tidesofchange.info/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871762/131871762.html#the+martyrdom+of+polycarp+pdf, is directly referenced in the document body, indicating a potential primary destination for the redirection.
Heuristics 3
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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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External URI info PDF_URIPDF contains an external URL action
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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 http://tidesofchange.info/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871762/131871762.html#the+martyrdom+of+polycarp+pdf
- http://lisamichener.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437523/wovekudakibiro.pdf
- http://theoregonexpress.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606055/4a91f9836fa.pdf
- http://maesq.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551001/27343.pdf
- http://ctthompsonconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738994/a658c3be1ae3ece.pdf
- http://lewishubbardgroup.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164393/xapidiw-tikeluzap.pdf
- http://lastingloss.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776205/dexovil.pdf
- http://sharpscience.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130605516/5080640.pdf
- http://bulldawgscience.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381605/pijusesunovovamoxi.pdf
- http://myfirex.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408252/2346979.pdf
- http://busenbites.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435524/peboluba-gedewewufonok-zofakiruvajakun-podami.pdf
- http://novi-ia.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288321/12c9b45fe.pdf
- http://vacationrentalinsurance.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379776/c29868e6.pdf
- http://whatsimportantnowinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588407/4743513.pdf
- http://higherherbs.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604617/gosog.pdf
- http://translationpen.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130312961/2870170.pdf
- http://myfirex.com/uploads/1/3/1
- 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 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00008825.bin31608f6924a2e999af556f33a3c1e89082b119bac6fc5ad927a25823f3c5e07b |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8825 | 8580 bytes |
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