MALICIOUS
130
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious File
The PDF file contains an embedded URI pointing to an external resource, and a machine learning classifier flagged it as malicious. The document body includes a visual download button lure and references to URLs that appear to be part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The primary malicious URL identified is http://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied.pdf, which is likely used to deliver a secondary payload.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8425
Heuristics 4
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Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOADThe ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
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PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARMPDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
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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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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 http://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied.pdf In PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://creativebehavioralsolutions.com/about.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://creativebehavioralsolutions.com/resume.docIn PDF document text
- http://andyk.de/tricia/woolard/tricia_woolard_m_creative_behavioral_solutions_applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.coltan-environmental.org/2016/05/25/tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied/pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.mamasya.tv/reads-online/tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://throni.de/tricia/woolard/tricia_woolard_m_creative_behavioral_solutions_applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.lr-media.tv/reads-online/tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://paperipaperi.com/reads-online/tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.emilycournoyer.com/reads-online/tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://buysms.de/tricia/woolard/tricia_woolard_m_creative_behavioral_solutions_applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://venuyallaturi.com/file/pdf/tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://installation-guide.com/reads-online/tricia-woolard-m-creative-behavioral-solutions-applied.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/systems-analysis-and-design-10th-edition.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-prisoner-of-cell-25-michael-vey-1-richard-paul-evans.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/three-card-monte-world-noir.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/tr-o.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/television-and-knowledge-gap-hypothesis.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/study-guide-questions-for-huck-finn.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-greatest-basketball-story-ever-told-50th-anniversary-edition-the-milan-miracle.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/sony-ss-xgr600-speakers-owners-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/the-best-business-cards-designs.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-2018.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3A%2F%2Fcreativebehavioralsolutions.com%2Fresume.docIn PDF document text
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617350In PDF document text
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
- https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922In PDF document text
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409In PDF document text
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297In PDF document text
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn 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_off000065fd.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65FD | 13452 bytes |
SHA-256: 2ec7507eb8f583d27672358f0011fd33d55d9b8844032207853c98792c5e8e2b |
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font_01_sfnt_off00008f66.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F66 | 8044 bytes |
SHA-256: 89c523b657382f227635c6b0cdb541b1bbb16ed092cfb1c31bd48ba1f6c0b4c4 |
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