Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e478327c3eae302…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.4 KB Created: 2009-11-15 19:41:70 Authoring application: PDF Library 4.3.9 (via PDF Library 3.9.7)
MD5: db81ec4eabab8e2c574359829764ade2 SHA-1: 7e10fd01a1f94c64ba50c586b321924f965d5119 SHA-256: 3e478327c3eae302d8acc735df53052de23c790ccc3b0bc1853b751fd00d875c
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV which identified it as Win.Trojan.Agent-36166. The presence of embedded JavaScript, indicated by PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics, strongly suggests that the document is intended to execute malicious code. The ML classifier also provided a very high confidence score for maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging the embedded JavaScript to likely download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Agent-36166 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Agent-36166
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
fc3267020f838a220cf60f50a5b234310f3d781f89f46af8e02bc2c9a5f3c451
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x1A5 74908 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Agent-36166
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely