Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21372142b46a192e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.8 KB Created: 2012-04-06 19:15:32
MD5: c707d55f96d2cce0a2e59cf8ac93861e SHA-1: 41f7bf4efe071e0e0021dca4d631bb348406c0ea SHA-256: 21372142b46a192eb989f9271fa3f32803866a29a3a43a8edfce0717a571adce
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1' and a high ML score indicating maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The document body contains what appears to be obfuscated or corrupted text, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1
  • 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_obj0010.bin
29972c49e797ad3ff7a797a45b4dc4c886d5ab589def0275361ab90a3eb3f103
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0xC8A 6998 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).