MALICIOUS
160
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF contains a link farm with 16 external PDF links, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=zimmermans+research+guide, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document also includes a heuristic indicating it's a password-protected archive lure, suggesting it's designed to trick users into downloading a password-protected file, likely to bypass security scanning. The overall pattern suggests a SEO poisoning or link farm attack designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.
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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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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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.ru/wix?keyword=zimmermans+research+guide
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0481/3721/files/understanding_and_using_english_grammar_workbook_answer_key.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6657/2452/files/31022830464.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5797/0329/files/chemistry_alberta_20_30_online_textbook.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5000/0796/files/united_states_addresses.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c0b9f2e80a844d1cba436aabd9056d62.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1053edf0e1d8419aaa6158287312581e.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf79db_f8120d06ec3443e4a015948f490a0d2c.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_831ccc73514545c894d1eb630ef9eae8.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d43733_707592a277714db7a6652cedb363a6f1.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bfbc46_9a969110837a48aab27556e10570e45d.pdf
- https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_79d62f8333df476db4b78d181843641c.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6281/1031/files/amharic_afaan_oromo_dictionary.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9128/files/pupeferoke.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/beekeeping_project_proposal_income_generation.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7667/1895/files/celebration_templates_powerpoint_presentations.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7998/2492/files/agrarian_reforms_meaning_in_tamil.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_off00008ca7.bincdb289ea21940d7e2d9b5c836c5c2531d202f6c18014b7f76fc3f881a368cc6d |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CA7 | 5280 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00009e5c.bin8c8fa4a4af98d661e3a53d5dfa54ecfc2cab0c0e7fa8a9715b095e8664356ebc |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E5C | 10184 bytes |
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