MALICIOUS
136
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated maliciousness. A high-severity heuristic identified an image lure linking to an SEO redirector, which is a common tactic for phishing campaigns. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of a redirector URL suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site or download further malware.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7691
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/XMoLd4EPXkg/square?utm_term=perimeter+sums+for+class+7 PDF link annotation
- https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60f3e77edb752c5e49b1559b/1626597246663/aphids_on_wisteria.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60ee902402e0767984f7ee20/1626247204717/end_to_end_recruitment_process.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60f2e180a9adb72803a1194d/1626530176491/52059871745.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_off0000c917.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC917 | 16792 bytes |
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1 |
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font_01_sfnt_off0000e12e.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12E | 10544 bytes |
SHA-256: de5278f515fa2066970114847fef87a7bba0db62ff9cc8c396ea43ad6b2ff183 |
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font_02_sfnt_off0000f95c.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95C | 17824 bytes |
SHA-256: 470ab22a960e8638daf8b3dbec615db653c2ea5e755ac2684e6960b136dca1e8 |
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