Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eede5751a81a3884…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2020-09-07 18:55:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9ac006d24e0b661a6bccc4933a329b68 SHA-1: 5ab59076da0b95a6748d3a2739bcdbfa54852000 SHA-256: eede5751a81a3884cdde994cdc681e830585bfe21afce0b9d492b1de74e609c2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded links, one of which is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'king cobra care sheet' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of a link farm and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One 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://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=king+cobra+care+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de9003_d1c4b50ec3fd468aa28d7a01be48f4cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/694d5d_1b90e2bd96b34a60864ed8fef8edb69c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f3bfbb_436858d647b84883bece690cef13edca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ba596_173eeb47644e460d9f72d3ca9cb2a784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/314c35_ae9f62755eaa43d59ac768beaddaa67d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c6c1_4126399a73d5460a98bfd61c72c3573f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3794ad_302bfa2d2b9a427baceb6564cd1de874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6f9b04_eb20d8c9d94341aa85ddfec7166f01c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/60ffa2_60e2c9870a0a4f03825786d07ad64f06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05301a_0e92e2ff0c9241ee98d65e51b3950c6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63f22d_715cd7a158964d27a4f332a2a7d20379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_c2e5389c682846f88fb7dae80bca9407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9d24cb_c8d1ce5f10024e45bf5d8a290a4e092d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/19103d_ff43c840e4c444e1bfaf280eb3aba455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/37428b_f0dba20de344411695acacf28c2227b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8B7 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 1e28ebed87f2d826e5c1a7cb331efad4c3b621bf7a6aedaf45e3f8d4ef16d2c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000da35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA35 10976 bytes
SHA-256: bdbbebd8c0823bf15fe21b3ed7b3bb5263562c3addeeceb649129ad3a1223c59