MALICIOUS
152
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external PDFs, with the primary redirector URL being identified as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure disguised as a fact sheet. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing via the embedded links.
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.cc/wix?keyword=fao+aquaculture+species+fact+sheet
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a052f_97cb343a34294a569ea37b45a12cfdf1.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/41a0b6_e26217bda2b4446687509a8c66473ca4.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90d19e_c71056fe133f4652a0b63295bca2e580.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e4819_c003ebc648334c2f9c74c1b32f706123.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c7a620_0127416280ec4df3aca3be1b806d7e12.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40b9e6_907894bb7c584fdbb8cc0983c16aad14.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5cf23b_0d28aa8d22654388adfefb740de93fb5.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f5cef_25c1ea410fbc4672b3c6478e92885f20.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_55a46ddc4bf24ddd96c9cd27c09733da.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7198c1_7eb5cc26087249558f31196075fab634.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3600/6817/files/nifotodalozurowakefuvaniz.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6998/7223/files/berlingo_van_2020.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_off00006cb5.bin68010c15ab0498fcd4dc3cf00c94baae18859cb3015425c1bd67bd248fc442e4 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CB5 | 5184 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00007e59.bina2dbf272702fcb80054d95394185890ec936225dd3cbd72ec476f90592a4f875 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E59 | 9944 bytes |
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