Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bc671131f56b7d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB
MD5: dd4d053feb9166999835b22b2d79d45b SHA-1: ced3b615b8f6740410d9848e761dfed6d9876f1f SHA-256: 2bc671131f56b7d58484943deb3b4ab344d7535aee2f344b629c075c13e160ab
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits multiple indicators of malicious activity, including embedded JavaScript and Flash content, along with heuristic firings for PDF exploits and ML classification. The presence of an embedded JavaScript file suggests an attempt to execute malicious code. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports the malicious nature of this document. The primary attack vector appears to be leveraging embedded content to compromise the user's system.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA
    PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
Adobe.swf
ce5f7936cf8e3536a88a804ce2d6902022df1794fa878bdc64a26866e34ba989
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0xAB5 55839 bytes
javascript_obj0006_000.js
ea7dae75a216b6f7bdc2f54d465dfcabc8cdde69e8c4a19ba483c4c4c5378998
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0xF5 1564 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).