Malware Insights
The PDF contains a high density of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or link farming. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the malicious redirector heuristic, suggesting the document's purpose is to drive traffic to this malicious site. No scripts were extracted from this sample.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 3
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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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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/wb?keyword=national%20geographic%20magazine%20november%202019%20pdf
- http://files.upperwoodacademy.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874379/5508010.pdf
- http://difenobu.wherechangeiscertain.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776407/5746772.pdf
- http://ranapodes.loblollylabradors.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/5394324.pdf
- http://files.salon-alphonse.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452902/50671.pdf
- http://files.han1image.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776326/dabul_lezaxe_bedodadupa_vubevexujuzuji.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8768/1954/files/95561037748.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2129/3974/files/4696540620.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7759/9383/files/budalujoporisutizagirome.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3339/5351/files/zutalefisew.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9904/6553/files/45204995279.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1775/7095/files/69196207905.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0193/0143/files/46881822555.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8523/3318/files/wafibu.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1991/0811/files/3668254731.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2797/9678/files/fantasia_models_mya.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0933/5715/files/wugazajapelupejet.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4691/0624/files/ripowelokegoredifetaliju.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off00005a68.bin8d5c32e9c78dbf94ec41617bcd3720eba5cf5a8c552e7bb4d82a99c67c751484 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A68 | 5880 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00006e4c.bin2173797ff401a1f19bb3b8694c9dc4b2ab39535bba477845b336b98f15c9ef89 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E4C | 10836 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off0000934f.binb50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x934F | 4324 bytes |
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