Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cede6b9ba999ed6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB
MD5: df3d708dbad36a89d15292271a5cc3da SHA-1: 6ecea281df32201bfb223c537a2300e25e917706 SHA-256: 2cede6b9ba999ed6471eaccf3fe7b11c7ea1127ba897c546355be5c0b3d5c1f9
114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. While the document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, the presence of JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code. The embedded URLs, though mostly benign or unknown, are associated with the document's structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
a7d3972f93848dcca94a9e3d5398ecee9b77b13e74a9b82abc7b41f8801cec6c
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 12 at offset 0xA20F 3708 bytes