Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 385a855155f5460d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB
MD5: d21709d8baa99d904754bd10dc19b1ea SHA-1: c80c14ea460f66668f5cc6f9bb14aeaeaddca1ff SHA-256: 385a855155f5460d7088612a200b3e500f137e4fa47bb0dcf061ceed6ee2bc53
114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including critical ClamAV detection for obfuscated objects and a high ML score indicating maliciousness. Embedded JavaScript streams were identified, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to execute code. The obfuscated nature of the JavaScript and the presence of embedded URLs point towards a downloader or exploit delivery mechanism, though the specific payload could not be determined.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
a86615c1540c7a78bf82c8281c678505721dc51ba6c93e7ecafc509fcd5b7176
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 12 at offset 0xA1F5 3436 bytes