Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29af57a72fb66587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.9 KB Created: 2011-04-05 23:46:28 Authoring application: bub lob
MD5: 0fcf4a1a75598acda7773ddb114c0576 SHA-1: 2db094bb42e89eea12b3b9b7602fc269f1d3de5c SHA-256: 29af57a72fb66587c5433f09b337f2f9532a7c353bf8f26b9b121f9399c5fd4f
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript file, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript is the likely mechanism for delivering a second-stage payload. No document body text was available for analysis, but the presence of the embedded script and the high ML score are sufficient indicators.

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
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off00000331.js
512e1ded53b19a997424cd6363fba3fbed2c4605d42a0a6e5e753ba5b7d73fd1
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x331 13497 bytes