Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 094e654e8bc0457c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.1 KB Created: 2011-11-02 19:21:39 +04:00 Authoring application: Adobe Acrobat 10.0 (via Acrobat Web Capture 10.0)
MD5: 3dba12486b72e7170c7a382110747130 SHA-1: 5ed38891f40b8a84d035e57bfd6374d54a970900 SHA-256: 094e654e8bc0457c396dd278667295c71b2a2e1ea38db009a5159cf6ca251019
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection and high ML classifier score indicate maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript, identified by multiple heuristics, is the primary attack vector. This script likely downloads and executes a secondary payload, a common technique for this type of exploit. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature of the embedded script.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36776 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36776
  • 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.
  • 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://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://www.iec.ch

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0024_000.js
00a86bac721d3d9e07591f70d21e2458a12f02d521150dcbd57cd18aa81aff1f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 24 at offset 0x2617 11365 bytes
icc_00_off000018a6.icc
653b586c4707574ffcd648ba35494daed2c76ceafcf4c07d315ed961b1dc347f
pdf-icc-profile PDF ICC profile at offset 0x18A6 408 bytes
icc_01_off00001a00.icc
2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e
pdf-icc-profile PDF ICC profile at offset 0x1A00 3144 bytes