Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d19507858836abe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.6 KB Created: 2012-04-17 19:53:38
MD5: 396d0a8832a658c792659d4548194076 SHA-1: 1be95b15f3be077c6c1180faab0d960a0b790b21 SHA-256: 2d19507858836abe236d3d25ecd3c5f7b0a3ac47fb4f38480264abdb7a39ef8f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1', indicating it contains an exploit. Heuristics also identified an embedded script payload and an embedded file, strongly suggesting the document is designed to deliver a secondary malicious payload. The ML classifier output of 0.999986 further supports the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1
  • 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
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
7477bdf6c87ace759ed88f7849282c8c76853d9f0c9a5ba4c626850f14efdcd6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xBAF 7163 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).