Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a14cbc2ea4d9e2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB
MD5: b3b9d22e8fea3c52bb452e24b39f7de0 SHA-1: 53d84fea532ae29c1a8b698639ba7779887b0ae6 SHA-256: 2a14cbc2ea4d9e2dc515978f60bd044c420e99615e20add1dbccd74fb4b27886
114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV due to obfuscated objects and embedded JavaScript. The presence of JavaScript actions and streams indicates an attempt to execute code. While the document body is unreadable, the heuristics strongly suggest the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a malicious payload. The embedded URLs, though not directly malicious, are related to XFA forms, a common vector for PDF exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9445

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0012_000.js
18c7f891e18eb2d99c85d6a675f746b7605dae793d2dca349bd53d7a0fea59f5
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 12 at offset 0xA1C6 4071 bytes