Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 095f9bce1303b10c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.25 MB Created: 2010-07-29 12:26:01 Authoring application: Scribus 1.3.3.14 (via Scribus PDF Library 1.3.3.14)
MD5: cb2f92282101ef6d71348bee127e076b SHA-1: 9ad448e6109e345effa2ea61f3019af0bd77a3fd SHA-256: 095f9bce1303b10c25b6abb11f91a041953404ded45caa742dfb3e673f8f15e4
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript streams, identified by heuristics such as PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER. The JavaScript code itself appears heavily obfuscated and repetitive, making it difficult to determine its exact function, but it is highly indicative of malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high probability.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9850

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.
  • 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.
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape 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://www.monotype.comMonotype
    • http://ocsp.verisign.com/ocsp/status0
    • https://www.verisign.com/rpa0
    • http://www.monotype.com/html/mtname/ms_timesnewroman.htmlhttp://www.monotype.com/html/mtname/ms_welcome.htmlhttp://www.monotype.com/html/type/license.html
    • https://www.verisign.com/rpa
    • http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/CodeSignPCA.crl0
    • http://www.microsoft.com/typography
    • http://www.iec.ch

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0055_001.js
179a1887e0ea70923533f9e35c1632e1fa4b4dce7e9c1b293ae4a711069c240a
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 55 at offset 0x13DBAE 10901 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0055_002.js
5d4281fbc1bd8d51f0741ee0a88e1d034a5fd96c0b803db5f2217c7141af50cd
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 55 at offset 0x13DBD2 12394 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).