Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0aaa823a81b23256…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.8 KB Created: 2010-10-05 19:18:00 Authoring application: Pafitisbotticxixoua (via c5a47Jehabactasga)
MD5: 57b3368b9726cd0aa8a399944e8b1153 SHA-1: b0f4bd5895549aeb470ad6215eaff17cee701c12 SHA-256: 0aaa823a81b23256452f9616e128d9b6046f9d8617955630eb1e0c62b5ac7967
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a high-severity ML classifier and ClamAV's Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject rule. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is commonly used to download and execute secondary payloads. The JavaScript code appears to be obfuscated, making a precise analysis of its actions difficult, but its presence strongly suggests an intent to compromise the user's system.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0011_000.js
1d712bcf04655f0ea3df286010452910c0e6b45f83cc66ee3a790e43e4d30967
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 11 at offset 0x136A 3144 bytes