Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ee4a10307a9e371…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.7 KB Authoring application: rqb
MD5: e2a609e9ac3b5e4543b8aab6b22ebaeb SHA-1: 2a2d8351a48f4118820e4e3bcaf7239cafb01581 SHA-256: 3ee4a10307a9e3718a09a51c1881e475df6bd32d2fd6e76c0265077fd4b1c121
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript file, 'stream_001_off000002b0.js', is the primary artifact likely responsible for executing the malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
stream_001_off000002b0.js
0cbcac0fd64b9cf3eaeb37bbc8cc81d4eb78a0e2f4c50076c9442466de6129b9
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2B0 42145 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).