MALICIOUS
234
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious Link
T1059.007 JavaScript
This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external PDFs, and specifically employs a lure to install a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites, potentially disguised as a necessary update.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996
Heuristics 8
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ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
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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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Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LUREDocument tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
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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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Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LUREDocument contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
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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 https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485004/normal_60613431dd782.pdf In PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389599/normal_6060bd443e09e.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4390350/normal_5fe679ba70e04.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4495043/normal_5fd2181720313.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kitafoged.medianewsonline.com/56492225263.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405662/normal_6041e4c2d94c7.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.sqhk.co/figesuweno/cjfiahi/where._discover_cultural_events_in_your_city.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451019/normal_60569294d3978.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn.sqhk.co/milujawago/ibyNjsv/oil_rig_wallpaper.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408703/normal_60535511d6b17.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://neriwor.medianewsonline.com/24836399358.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467007/normal_603f80cf3e9fe.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491665/normal_600515db21cb9.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444358/normal_60473aec1a9b3.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wb/ENAH/~3/mO-5lVq97NI/wb?keyword=zoom%20video%20conferencing%20guidelinesPDF link annotation
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/genedesowul/can_u_use_in_formal_writing.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/voropa/39489673476.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/gazivemon/island_song_violin_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/saziwijaxodav/devil_hunter_lost_ark_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/zolerazowubow/quotation_follow_up_email_template_to_client.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://0cc2a7d0-6f33-4335-9ec9-554d9418487e.filesusr.com/ugd/cb4a18_001460c419da4f4cb173824912edfd62.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
- https://6f847715-c85a-45d9-ae5c-7c68cc800588.filesusr.com/ugd/6e100b_0a942f28602a4fa99a7d0729224c7e9b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
- https://99ca13e2-8bf0-45b2-93fa-bbfb519f101f.filesusr.com/ugd/5392be_b0b4ac821f774eebbd22982e7fa137a7.pdf?index=trueIn 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 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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font_00_sfnt_off000101f0.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F0 | 5148 bytes |
SHA-256: d3b02d75ced3650c28dde4ef6328b202e6f9322d534cac93c825eb81c8fbfa50 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00011370.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11370 | 10788 bytes |
SHA-256: 4d4e6ebf3e7c1e179fd3d8d38093591d00ba56f7855bd6c576e65ab0a29a9117 |
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