Malware Insights
This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of 'academic biology dna webquest answer key' in the document body suggests a lure to trick users into downloading the malicious PDF. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998
Heuristics 5
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ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
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Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARMSmall PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
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External URI info PDF_URIPDF contains an external URL action
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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 http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sakobonomoduriv.pdf In PDF document text
- http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/taxevoxasubosiwugudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/79062027218.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/41850888982.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/29410319198.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/28695523124.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tizodakemepegipupimegoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/danodajanenalidadalibebav.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/nuxikovevevugodir.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ralivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zabufenopi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/70037852461.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/6669476875.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/nuwirofu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=academic+biology+dna+webquest+answer+keyPDF link annotation
- https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/58023923203.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jelozubunumi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/setokan.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/93394875634.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/vojevo.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
- http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
- http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn 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_off0000d360.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD360 | 5772 bytes |
SHA-256: 2169e2f0de77d93a721467c0bcf8cdd87e3245dafa5bdfa1d87431d553c1b061 |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000e6ff.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6FF | 10684 bytes |
SHA-256: 98d14f661393043aa955c339a2b4e96ae789f800514156a1cdd72e02ba5a8aef |
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font_02_sfnt_off00010b85.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B85 | 16144 bytes |
SHA-256: 18f56b7fae04e07bc119a468ad323bdda099da77b0772854d1c47cc1f39b9f3b |
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