MALICIOUS
156
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to identifying cast iron skillets, a common tactic for disguising malicious links.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998
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://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87g957hte5ccpdsptj27qmd022/66412793373.pdf
- http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6ukkvk8h07m781scb3l7k5r6q/tafegu.pdf
- https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80408fae9c983b51e4bb6af042c9ca98/26016205379.pdf
- https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43a1294b1f---75644964791.pdf
- https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f61bdb8534---tegejozob.pdf
- http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/vemafavomim.pdf
- http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607869b181bc0---58932426352.pdf
- https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub9779tnd88r985an95tamqobf/xelanofifem.pdf
- https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eeacac42ca---22582067880.pdf
- http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8c0abe508---60083280938.pdf
- https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23919a0674---nijubebonozukazat.pdf
- https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/982f059793e0df38439f6186451d6827/13632008731.pdf
- https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda19f9178ca2cd026293bacb3596570/85977576410.pdf
- http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092dc7d488a3---72986503634.pdf
- https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9i1pn69gcmhmtgimcbop93djm5/43108184684.pdf
- https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd4cbab645---paxibuvowiwulunupinepazax.pdf
- https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e86d0d9fade7fe11724807f38216a0d/708209523.pdf
- http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6acdtdjg84g78r00o2akjm0k42/55847923068.pdf
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+identify+old+cast+iron+skillet
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
- http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddfe.binb6926a8652df0f7fc6a5cbb18d140dba111748f0445c4e5600da588f0f9b2190 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDFE | 5236 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff6.bince291bd3f97d2cc75ea2c7b6b2557a8ebba6a238c985416b7084dff6031087e2 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF6 | 10280 bytes |
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