MALICIOUS
136
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing attempt. The 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic specifically points to an image lure that redirects to an SEO redirector, likely for phishing purposes. Although no explicit script was found, the PDF structure and the presence of a redirector URL suggest an attempt to lure the user to a malicious site.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7788
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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Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINKPDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
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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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sq/ugae/~3/r_nBws6J8g8/square?utm_term=solid+to+liquid+phase+change PDF link annotation
- https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60e89e0196754c2235d52f3e/1625857537501/23707325327.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e8e4aef492d21a0f67da27/1625875630258/a_chinese_ghost_story_ii.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60e87faa2de0eb47a893f6aa/1625849770866/83058030180.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://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_off0000c77f.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC77F | 16792 bytes |
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1 |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000df91.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF91 | 16624 bytes |
SHA-256: 8aab1dd7d3c84996983020ac0d51d8783a0c8a2aa5f48005e140ea5c8f34500f |
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font_02_sfnt_off00010af4.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF4 | 11016 bytes |
SHA-256: 15ca6b27e19b6dc5c11f6c19b28db99f75df99242e2ce772ed942b6483f29725 |
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