Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ec356cf20d63cde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.1 KB
MD5: e379ac871d38af9a3cb931d2e6148478 SHA-1: d43fba62386a6a6b709d8b728f19f3092179c803 SHA-256: 1ec356cf20d63cded6789f6a97d40a7ff6af12c03b2302b8b2e83aa4f980c50b
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating a generic JavaScript exploit stage recovery. Multiple deobfuscated JavaScript files were extracted, suggesting they are responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The exact nature of the payload is not clear from the provided scripts, but the overall pattern points to a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 1

  • Generic recovered JavaScript exploit stage high PDF_GENERIC_STAGE_RECOVERY
    Bounded static stage recovery exposed hidden JavaScript through generic transforms such as null-byte collapse, percent decoding, marker replacement, arithmetic character codes, fromCharCode, numeric arrays, numeric-array minus-key decoders, alphabet-index arrays, /Producer half-difference metadata arrays, hex literals, marker-stripped Base64 literals, custom 6-bit XOR table decoders, or repeated-marker hex carriers. This rule is emitted only when the recovered stage contains exploit-like Acrobat JavaScript or shellcode markers.

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
generic_stage_recovery_000.js
5a3d618cc83fec1f8003eb2530912f02e653c5baeb1d26e88be81e583830516a
deobfuscated-js generic stage recovery percent-decode from decompressed stream at 0x63 at offset 0x63 1966 bytes
generic_stage_recovery_001.js
345e044131a08dd1ac7b741746371cfb4c09687390f7933c077c708a4212a1db
deobfuscated-js generic stage recovery percent-decode -> percent-decode from decompressed stream at 0x63 at offset 0x63 1896 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
82e437a34ffd7a5adea747c29400e59651eeab351c671fa9b3baf778b23b0fa0
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x63 155 bytes