Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 215b2ccc1a11846a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.1 KB Created: 2011-04-05 23:46:28 Authoring application: bgsfsdffab
MD5: 0704c22fa31674d96838b0e108771d10 SHA-1: 6105212a67d1c7bed372078b3828e37c39dd26e7 SHA-256: 215b2ccc1a11846a6135ff65250fe9fb53579fa8851249b1ea3d1bf336a48f50
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains an embedded JavaScript file, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. This embedded script is likely responsible for the malicious behavior, potentially downloading and executing further payloads. The presence of an embedded script and the ML classification strongly suggest a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
stream_001_off00000316.js
d2b3a62f0c318c2adfe8a65d021ee7e4a9192ec79324cb32f14b3588ecb867df
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x316 55442 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).