MALICIOUS
152
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which are likely part of an SEO link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to reference 'the scarlet ibis study guide pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 4
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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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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.
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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=the+scarlet+ibis+study+guide+pdf
- http://files.paulabarbercoaching.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776858/mufelubisulebiwuf.pdf
- http://files.thefashionanalyst.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383624/wezunawe.pdf
- http://files.pederistad.no/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453610/kaloz.pdf
- http://files.hillsideboardingandkennel.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815787/kudoworamekafasemexi.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7353/6149/files/dupitipunarujesipapigewa.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/xuvitalaniburikaxa.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5064/8223/files/25150977685.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4317/7126/files/sazozoguvalow.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9671/1069/files/31152575740.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0156/0737/files/zawekatevijurato.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6183/0037/files/bidaramud.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4613/2119/files/gilexevok.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/xifolojeli.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8801/1673/files/94255402837.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1728/0408/files/50993400336.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_off0000765f.bin43ba24e33186e541bc9e7e958dd4dac31bb25d8f2ce2563fd30b7ceff346b61d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x765F | 5272 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000885f.bin53e109026faf1bd3577bd5da2ebb9c98f1ef8c37b7b78c9486d4754841f71659 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x885F | 10196 bytes |
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