MALICIOUS
202
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF document contains a mass of external links, masquerading as author guidelines, to a known malicious redirector. The primary lure appears to be a fake set of 'information systems research author guidelines' which directs users to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=information+systems+research+author+guidelines'. This redirector likely leads to a malicious payload. The document also contains numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 6
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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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Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LUREDocument contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
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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=information+systems+research+author+guidelines In PDF document text
- http://mulewisuz.greatcommissionalliance.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969723/pitawevifub.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://solatuxir.missionepossibilehk.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740596/48f585a56.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.uvoholicsanonymous.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383648/refejuperi-ziviw.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kemovo.balisupertickets.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683165/4406197.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ruforakud.dentaldivalicious.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/vutabexutakuf.pdfIn 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/1/0438/2529/9606/files/77928517186.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4837/0333/files/sasex.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7471/4790/files/robuworosotazefixafatex.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5923/3443/files/botefosedajuxasolizidetu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9436/0735/files/36955170818.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6481/1927/files/automotive_industry_analysis_report.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7311/7091/files/wewugiduka.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6940/6360/files/rejugujivoxidato.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0406/0071/files/ubah_ke_word_candy.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/94353662856.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1437/4054/files/23516023653.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1168/1958/files/types_of_assessment_strategies.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_off0000b471.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB471 | 5472 bytes |
SHA-256: 7496c1343ec1cd8862ba77cacd2052a917ebec60de95ab46b1cd5d5133f161c7 |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000c6e3.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6E3 | 10472 bytes |
SHA-256: 515b6dbc175666f4a4fc97717b5f144efa81a9dd3861405a555c350b1e24b095 |
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