Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37a09ad210ed34d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

139.0 KB Created: 2010-06-11 11:09:09 +08:00 Authoring application: Writer (via OpenOffice.org 3.0)
MD5: 1fe2f4322d22bd4a056d9835c0078c85 SHA-1: 77b31dd45a05312b7e4da564ccb12410bc9e864e SHA-256: 37a09ad210ed34d12dae6e059b291e8ad7b01ef832997233aafc277998db67af
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits multiple suspicious characteristics, including embedded JavaScript, RichMedia (Flash), and a secondary embedded PDF. The presence of these elements, particularly the embedded JavaScript and the secondary PDF, strongly indicates an attempt to execute malicious code or exploit vulnerabilities. The 'POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE' heuristic firing with a high score further supports this, pointing to a suspicious secondary PDF body. No specific malware family could be confidently identified.

Heuristics 8

  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA
    PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector (matched inside decoded stream)
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload (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.
  • 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.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off00000372.bin
72d82bd9d448ed7cfb55f363a1cc116f17cba235927fb4aaff4ecb5fa3e7e643
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x372 3386 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
objstm_0015_00.bin
cbd11d2ce487f41cb2e696adc35306d2f3d38b7de6eab25b0e0d07f05d693f12
pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 15 0 obj (inflated) 912 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0001936d.bin
dc26d0d48967a92853c480b4aec2ad5cea267a1000dac9cf426345c747588d37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1936D 65204 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00015797.pdf
21c451fcccfeb10d8de90f736fd1a488e615dc0a605b1709f612b6622e19ab55
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x15797 54422 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00021440.pdf
0b1c923c8a0028794f3a3244dc498786746334f394e41678cc58ffbeb707d0a8
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x21440 6125 bytes