Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11e4feaf195553df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

794.1 KB
MD5: 91f11b7c2ec91b0849ca084656e0bbe7 SHA-1: 7164a824225e4f02be953d0ac56ffebb38999926 SHA-256: 11e4feaf195553df74202348b36e4911affa069ff7363cf1d6292d89837ec3a1
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers a PDF JavaScript exploit cluster, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code. The embedded JavaScript likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload from a remote source. The presence of an unknown reputation URL suggests a potential command and control or download destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0912

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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 https://www.services-publics.lu/assistants/public-defo?ECITIZ_ACTIVITY_PATH=Usager&amp;ECITIZ_PROCESS_ID=MULT-DEFO&amp;FORM_TYPE_ID=AEV_VFE_FR
    • http://www.monotype.comMonotype
    • http://ocsp.verisign.com0
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfa/promoted-desc/
    • http://cgi.adobe.com/special/acrobat/update
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.8/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://get.adobe.com/reader
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.7/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/
    • https://www.verisign.com/rpa
    • http://ocsp.verisign.com/ocsp/status0
    • https://www.verisign.com/rpa0
    • http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/CodeSignPCA.crl0
    • http://www.microsoft.com/typography
    • http://www.monotype.com/html/mtname/ms_arial.htmlhttp://www.monotype.com/html/mtname/ms_welcome.htmlhttp://www.monotype.com/html/type/license.html
    • http://crl.verisign.com/tss-ca.crl0
    • http://crl.verisign.com/ThawteTimestampingCA.crl0
    • https://www.verisign.com/rpa01
    • http://crl.verisign.com/pca3.crl0
    • http://CSC3-2004-crl.verisign.com/CSC3-2004.crl0D
    • http://CSC3-2004-aia.verisign.com/CSC3-2004-aia.cer0
    • http://www.adobe.com/typehttp://www.adobe.com/type/legal.html

Extracted artifacts 11

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000034e.js
f94e41f586bf3f20bc1deeac4bfbda388a61db43f25fbd6304ba73f5653368cf
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x34E 1313 bytes
stream_003_off0000052c.js
1b2ec98752b966f601d5223a750559cf13d562ac5e5c6d1fcc7217835b01f5fd
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x52C 902 bytes
stream_008_off00000eb1.js
80ae8c46bcf65102556f375db175ae98db25307ca8220e5ddf75db3dc1c80fe1
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xEB1 1701 bytes
stream_009_off000011ca.js
7bfa690d12985fe1f772d855b11b28d15d166dd99b487cc84ba4ff22aca5ac85
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x11CA 477774 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).
stream_010_off0002e5a1.bin
bae54e3600ae615bf3fb783f9d056684ba872ac2166c4eb2a68ca4ee68db1598
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E5A1 5615 bytes
stream_011_off0002e93a.bin
9f35c002141a190abf8d03480b3a979c639b3846de42831a07c0c6c42d70223d
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E93A 8952 bytes
stream_012_off0002ebf3.bin
90938f9e3cdf6db2eeee31ed7c949f3b0952b799b670df73d2e56d31bfcc8d34
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2EBF3 121 bytes
stream_015_off0003f35b.bin
b8e2518b116c26bab0e9f8c1672daf405dedad561157502b657e9005be2029aa
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3F35B 367087 bytes
stream_017_off000909f8.bin
1e8564d3d89047875dccaa98279599de9d7ddf77240906041f1156ba8edf3315
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x909F8 352198 bytes
objstm_0045_00.bin
03a23940d4b1a1d42108d19c3d254ff2d9d2db049b4419231d6296a77f28134d
pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 45 0 obj (inflated) 614 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0002f077.bin
c29e5b1537bee8c88b3ffca56c5f24a45ec8da374cf9d4c0b4a78d04fc230949
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2F077 95975 bytes