MALICIOUS
156
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms, under the guise of search results for a popular textbook. The embedded URLs likely serve to download and execute further malicious content.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997
Heuristics 6
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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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PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARMPDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
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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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cell+biology+bruce+alberts+pdf PDF link annotation
- https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9efaf44daba75edf9056410f16383e68/jekozesaze.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767756d29e6---24742232941.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/sotabujularaxodun.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbda4e8dff---3973393458.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6h0ag4dtvq45hu2jphatgrkub/wunizodezedaseliju.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf57a1ce9f---xadizaxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb908d6161---sudiluwozuru.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/47544254944.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac26bb21f0523d972e9ce9d809492717/lufirux.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea3bdd540e---95814236689.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bc1d53c6f2bc18781ecf3c58f022a44/47837896081.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47965909a0---novaja.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b767a7586a1---xaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lmmmcb0hd6j9ib4v4mea180lo/wonomilosoxaworoje.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000da60.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA60 | 5472 bytes |
SHA-256: 533dc186fde24aee7964decd7e977340b20245e7093441d9afb5677ac5eaddd1 |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000ed0d.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0D | 10920 bytes |
SHA-256: 2db63c30f8cb3077b31306d05ac60ed6dcdbd4baf656a6e551a997b0524defea |
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