Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b3c6a2aa74a26d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.8 KB Created: 2012-04-27 17:25:24
MD5: d737a99915d53434bed89c1e4fff4fdf SHA-1: c8b1051624521b7db338318d241ecd9bc55d7be7 SHA-256: 3b3c6a2aa74a26d2b31a0051591cbd4a4a5864f766628dc7f7ae0c10f6b04533
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1) and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file (embedded_file_obj0010.bin) strongly suggests the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a second-stage payload. The document body text appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, providing no clear user-facing lure.

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_obj0010.bin
8f60ce338bf2b3730156b4a5de677c941b928f1a9d77d1271c0f9c92456d6b8e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0xCB8 7229 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).