Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26a38f0488d5c542…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via substr)
MD5: 0088a656dcc900331d14963ad0fab932 SHA-1: ee6a4ce88a160cf73fbdfabee1a9c23f920ead49 SHA-256: 26a38f0488d5c54221f93838f7844fbd1d549a2f0bfac04f8720d7b63bdb238c
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94'. The presence of JavaScript actions and embedded JS streams indicates an attempt to execute malicious code. The ML classifier's high confidence score and the specific ClamAV detection suggest this PDF likely exploits a known vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0076_000.js
017d390e71cf41957e12d9655c358bdfdff858834371da150875f10eab90deb8
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x99C 45599 bytes