Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cfdb7f127ea3d31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.7 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: lice (via ubst)
MD5: a55ead133331c0239f2709e770a6e749 SHA-1: ea03b045ef2adc37e4484a161b348fe8b0c8d470 SHA-256: 0cfdb7f127ea3d318e68b74155bf06b64562b7f9b3c5ea19f7724bc4d940443d
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94. The embedded JavaScript is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload, indicated by the presence of PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics. The document body contains metadata that does not provide further context on the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
  • 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_obj0076_000.js
72f923603eba1b2de040c9494aa504cba33afa1630196cf9eebd6e52861c34a4
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x94B 50260 bytes