Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c9ee2879a2785d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB
MD5: 78dfec75d0f8147fab2aefb320fa6ccf SHA-1: 98320e1f06f2318b55e96f28942d78b4ad798649 SHA-256: 2c9ee2879a2785d502a3649617847703ce0c2f15db356a5da4ce499d492fd753
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS'. The presence of 'unescape()' suggests obfuscation, a common technique for hiding malicious code. While the document body is largely unreadable garbage, the overall structure and the JavaScript action point towards an attempt to exploit a vulnerability and execute a payload. The embedded URLs are not definitively malicious but are suspicious in this context.

Heuristics 6

  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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://www.bitstream.com
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0013_000.js
10c491acb032556fc5d47cd2177f32f8adb55d7223c9343f95c61894f4cbee8e		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x10531 3979 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
font_00_sfnt_off00000352.bin
a8f4d9b7d604c3c8a0bf3f9a31b9e952d467f98d118fdc784d95d689a14d8a33		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x352 65932 bytes

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