Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01c6dc6dfbdafea3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.0 KB Created: 2008-08-03 07:51:49 -09:03 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0) (via Adobe PDF Library 8.1)
MD5: 6ac26e2f6b96ef8077e0253bbae09f6c SHA-1: 28446d280e353db2519fe9f8a5fd314cbe7f1bd2 SHA-256: 01c6dc6dfbdafea30047cc3dbb29f1b914d1d9190fd82291cef81f057df9f22b
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains obfuscated JavaScript that decodes to a URL. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from the specified URL, indicated by the .exe extension. The ML classifier and heuristics strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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 http://67.215.246.138/a92/aff_9.exe?u=i/7/1&spl=p1

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0013_001.js
6f7dee9265dd5baece0724338303090c1105a11aea8eab559a4fba919c8a84a6
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x35D 2602 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).