Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 206add8f1ada29a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.2 KB Created: 2012-09-21 13:52:08
MD5: ce106ec802f8bd482874bf899af0ba52 SHA-1: 3c75eb20b4c7edc754b1b8a19df9407b1d4b153a SHA-256: 206add8f1ada29a93de15062e48808fe8a801ed9c34a39b3bc417febab9c5d6e
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious with a high confidence score. Static analysis revealed an embedded file, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The embedded file itself was identified as a suspicious artifact.

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
2e917625108957f8b28e6bc27b8c89eee96502346a2f18e0a3a685c3c99adfa3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0xB54 6948 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).