MALICIOUS
194
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.002 Malicious Link
The PDF file contains a heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for "Counseling psychology interview questions and answers". This URL redirects to a known malicious domain, suggesting the primary goal is to lead the user to a malicious site. The file also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 5
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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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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.ru/pify?keyword=counseling+psychology+interview+questions+and+answers In PDF document text
- http://files.beautifulimageofboone.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969428/9669097.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.heartridgeministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407357/1746300.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.handcraftersbarn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739234/lazazefesotejeripez.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://files.charlotteatkin.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438500/e5f05.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3170/7294/files/15020631460.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/bartok_romanian_folk_dances_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8279/2606/files/al_quran_al_karim.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/26816172137.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5823/2473/files/sorezusaloxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3015/1330/files/gogujixudaretobatag.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4198/0567/files/12801593261.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8441/5143/files/diccionario_ecologico_ambiental.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0281/4876/files/wotevusi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6763/7917/files/jirusotivudij.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3957/2643/files/seluxemod.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/7899/6383/files/39839260838.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 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off00008323.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8323 | 5620 bytes |
SHA-256: 2108e99037dfd6e85b115b11e4ea47dc889139e47b0f3fbc79f64e472666ba62 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00009649.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9649 | 10120 bytes |
SHA-256: ec70148c75e15ee3c57d730ffa10f5a07c05aefecffe226fca41fd24ac034588 |
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font_02_sfnt_off0000b8e6.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8E6 | 4324 bytes |
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c |
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