MALICIOUS
156
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.007 JavaScript
This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure related to an essay on 'the american dream in the great gatsby'. No scripts were extracted from this sample.
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 http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607479057d5dd---4941848995.pdf In PDF document text
- https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a161df011---9652779755.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dbe97d7d0---vegerinexoridabip.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d200350f65---24882898086.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7b7c3bdee82f812a3ce9fb779dbe759/lutigojisasenexe.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cj9u0rvbm843sp3kfo4p37e10e/39150701133.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5376f12a7933c08673a6602f31dd9d68/82676708866.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dcc5ddeabfe1198b66138c8acaba680/67595432960.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/gafapexamoman.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070891dba69e---ruxupokarobum.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f3a414fe1588a698a9f8baadea23363/6459581880.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f304111ee939f02ab6022a85cac876ec/44622294416.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/32099422142.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2kqtv21cs5devbpfrfmi5q43c3/47963292955.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5i2gu84fme5e1u0tsahd9b0c3/63378152804.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084810f6e670---44024881250.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
- http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+american+dream+in+the+great+gatsby+essay+pdfPDF link annotation
- 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_off0000d2e6.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E6 | 5728 bytes |
SHA-256: 1a90d33398f52862969f2227a5968b03eea8c73f977d38976fe2508e3e717655 |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000e639.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE639 | 10036 bytes |
SHA-256: 556fb6ef66f6b9dd52ae6b38741b4c807911696ac70cee0a35d11fc55e6d8a0b |
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