MALICIOUS
290
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1071.001 Web Protocols
The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a critical finding of a PDF redirector link to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. The presence of a 'SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE' and 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' suggests a business email compromise or payment scam. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, likely as part of a link farm to obscure the malicious redirector.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 9
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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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Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINKPDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
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Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LUREDocument gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
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Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LUREDocument describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
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Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LUREDocument contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
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Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTONDocument contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
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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/pify?keyword=brela+tanzania+pdf In PDF document text
- http://files.welcometomyhomepage.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607010/8005743.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.anniescandy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873880/betogumadabebu_magozumetug_luzuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.brela.go.tz/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7916/4314/files/82223332940.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4161/1159/files/tinkle_digest_stories.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1922/2687/files/bescherelle_italien.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7219/8558/files/riluxoderaf.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6223/1201/files/servsafe_study_guide_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4130/0380/files/fotesagap.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2440/8991/files/jalirajoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4343/8244/files/hindu_baby_names_for_girls.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3446/0828/files/ronavefosamumoki.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4973/8650/files/35156437973.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3444/7770/files/breath_of_the_wild_wizzrobe.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2401/3722/files/codex_alimentarius_commission.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5576/7967/files/folidov.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off0000871a.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x871A | 4956 bytes |
SHA-256: 72ea59e7a3f98b61048a23f9ff0bd2002e41e2866e5e120916e7b0a8ac0b5205 |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000980c.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x980C | 10076 bytes |
SHA-256: b849abca053be579bc57304e19ad4ad1f860fe8eb1190efefaaf57deda64b355 |
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