MALICIOUS
130
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF contains an external URI pointing to a suspicious domain, which is also flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious. The document body includes text that appears to be a lure for downloading a file, indicated by the presence of download-related URLs and a heuristic firing for a visual download button. The primary malicious URLs are http://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=the-second-wave-meta-2-tom-reynolds.pdf and http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=the-second-wave-meta-2-tom-reynolds.pdf, suggesting the document's purpose is to facilitate the download of a secondary payload.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9369
Heuristics 4
-
Fake 'free download' SEO-poisoning PDF critical PDF_SEO_FAKE_DOWNLOADThe ML classifier flagged this PDF AND it carries a visual download/call-to-action lure AND an off-domain server-side download-gateway link whose query string names a document payload. This three-signal conjunction is the fake-document / 'free PDF download' SEO-poisoning delivery pattern: the page is padded with benign decoy links to dilute classifier scores while funnelling the victim through the gateway to malware/scareware. Acting only on the conjunction keeps benign download-bearing PDFs from being misflagged.
-
PDF carries a PHP-gateway SEO-spam PDF link farm medium PDF_SEO_PHP_GATEWAY_LINK_FARMPDF contains four or more clickable links whose target is a `.php` gateway with a multi-word search-PHRASE document slug embedded after it (e.g. 'index.php?.../binary+options+trading+nz.pdf' or 'pdf.php/cialis-dosage-side-effects.pdf'). Legitimate PHP-served documents use a filename or numeric id, not a search-query phrase, so this is the generated SEO link-farm shape — pharma / binary-options / 'free download' spam that ranks for queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
-
Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTONDocument contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
-
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://uncpbisdegree.com/download3.php?q=the-second-wave-meta-2-tom-reynolds.pdf In PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/download4.php?q=the-second-wave-meta-2-tom-reynolds.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.phpIn PDF document text
- http://www.interment.net/data/eng/greater-london/tower-hill-memorial-records-a.htmIn PDF document text
- http://www.interment.net/uk/eng/greater-london.htmIn PDF document text
- http://www.interment.net/data/eng/greater-london/tower-hill-memorial.htmIn PDF document text
- http://www.bibme.org/In PDF document text
- http://www.ropermike.com/trouble/title-index-p.phpIn PDF document text
- http://www.ropermike.com/trouble/update-history-p.phpIn PDF document text
- http://www.erfoundation.org/bib/biblioall.php?sortby=alphIn PDF document text
- http://integralleadershipreview.com/table-of-contents/In PDF document text
- https://www.rightsidenews.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/s.htmIn PDF document text
- http://www.plexoft.com/cgi-bin/L.cgiIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/ventilator-quiz-questions-and-answers.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/stats-1-ocr-june-2013-exam-paper.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/state-and-national-boundaries-of-the-united-states.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/swokowski-calculus-student-solutions-manual-5th-edition-vol-1.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-case-of-the-six-watsons.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://riverside-resort.net/1/volvo-vhd-service-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/sfp-1024-programming-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/the-goal-a-process-of-ongoing-improvement-eliyahu-m-goldratt.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/sony-a65-instruction-manual.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://uncpbisdegree.com/1/supply-and-demand-practice-problems-answers.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://screenrant.com/deadpool-2-trailer-domino/In PDF document text
- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ArrowverseMetahumansIn PDF document text
- http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/best-films-tv-shows-2017-1201908664/In PDF document text
- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RewatchBonusIn PDF document text
- http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/the-simpsons-respond-apu-stereotype-controversy-1202747506/#In PDF document text
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_album_releasesIn PDF document text
- http://www.metacritic.com/browse/movies/score/metascore/all/filteredIn PDF document text
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatryIn PDF document text
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.metacritic.com/browse/movies/score/metascore/90day/filteredIn PDF document text
- https://abcnews.go.com/US/In PDF document text
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/In PDF document text
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338&CLCID=0409In PDF document text
- https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=868922In PDF document text
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759&CLCID=409In PDF document text
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=617297In PDF document text
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
font_00_sfnt_off0000490e.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x490E | 10988 bytes |
SHA-256: 1c2d9fb02c7c113b3a2bd96c7dca80c9f2f5a01e9b00dc2e2d6f9ca5a0c4be25 |
|||
font_01_sfnt_off00006bcc.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BCC | 6876 bytes |
SHA-256: c8a2f3bfc52085acdf8c010adc61c23898d9a62d0e0981fedf83de63f5fcc6d1 |
|||
Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.