Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11f5cb9f4e400d95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

407.4 KB Authoring application: Python PDF Library 055 http072057057pybrary056net057pyPdf057
MD5: 931b0cf32854b5cf96e5c5a442e09b24 SHA-1: 4ca2c9224784755c4b13c24d011e1f80c5984dcb SHA-256: 11f5cb9f4e400d9532d6d53a04a53dc85b6934b156c049e140f7dcb0eca3333a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and rich media (Flash), strongly indicating an attempt to execute malicious code. The presence of a secondary embedded PDF further suggests a multi-stage attack. The ML classifier's high confidence score and the critical heuristic firing for a suspicious child PDF support the assessment of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA
    PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
  • 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 file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
pushpro.swf
f30a754153ec4fca6ea9fb770704c65d16bb94933b633b8d6ec5725c761d79c6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0xB4F 772 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00064528.pdf
5da99374b561b57aa146829d66bf751470dcded5972eb056126e4f96732ebf0e
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x64528 6297 bytes