Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ad660fd3609b59c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.3 KB Created: 2012-09-14 17:44:47
MD5: c7af1c48a510cf6d91670fd41c411574 SHA-1: 783febefa35513dc8b2f8d42de113f3eaae60ba6 SHA-256: 1ad660fd3609b59c5f26c257fe2e13b17bcf728876cad4cffba3cd7cc8a85749
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1553.005 Mark-of-the-Web Bypass T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains an embedded file, flagged by heuristics as a suspicious payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated and truncated, contains text that appears to be unrelated to typical document content, suggesting a lure or obfuscation. The primary attack vector appears to be the embedded file, which is likely intended to be executed by the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
1cbd2568c0391a2f0448b2a69166b270921c2b4dedd31d99a1bd05e06369a21f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0xC1E 6937 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).