Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c181261490e6b04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: b5944ed66b097efe5cfc08f59f5a768c SHA-1: 71ba15a8caa03bc6ce9091817ec0f4a3ed0ca00f SHA-256: 1c181261490e6b04b82e74f95285c809a57a6ab9aa940c047e639690401dc6eb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' and a high ML score. The presence of embedded files and scripts strongly suggests it's a dropper or exploit loader. The specific ClamAV detection indicates it's designed to drop a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0006.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x234 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x2E9 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
3e104dc15468b8c85d8e2a69f27dbfdd3c3ca52699d1ef2352ed54e35c0dc849
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x3DD 1267 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x718 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
ebdf072e9f66ba650b367f13456eac591ec044d5d3d24a8449f07f4d0e25cb8b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x80F 10463 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x1154 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x11FF 56 bytes