Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e797e99eb611a63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.9 KB Created: 2008-08-19 12:14:36 Authoring application: avast5CC
MD5: 32b629dbc123471577618fbf5f0f339e SHA-1: be63f82a0511e3cdb75ed44234d7f062285ef3d6 SHA-256: 1e797e99eb611a63f1a160422f6d147d0c7df50bb04f02133f68e7caa5940b03
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence as malicious. Static analysis revealed multiple embedded files, with one particularly large file (embedded_file_obj0012.bin) likely containing the malicious payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts further indicates a malicious intent to execute code or deliver further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x21C 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x2CD 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
a148d43a6d521a413da89fed19812864b93b1c320754315c714a4800264650e2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3BE 1753 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x71D 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
a1816c7d6490d2aa67473561817b8e25316b70b670f7db54b76b5d87ad762ef6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x810 123104 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x1B1D 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x1BC5 56 bytes