Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4143d9baef165c60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.3 KB
MD5: eb587b66da295efeec8265dfb55f9eca SHA-1: 58e55a00a99204a73afe4f3aae856f5e40c40085 SHA-256: 4143d9baef165c60c5d9f312af828c38968012aa1a39a5e4a7c60a0b7faf81d2
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link T1071.001 Web Protocols

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a Flash object, both of which are commonly used to exploit vulnerabilities. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded artifacts 'ZdhyXAVZwLWfPiH.swf', 'javascript_obj0006_000.js', and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' suggest the PDF is designed to download and execute additional malicious payloads, likely exploiting browser or PDF reader vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA
    PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ZdhyXAVZwLWfPiH.swf
767382813fc770c9716554c3266b22eee1636037ca964af05acf6ff66db4a27d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x11F4 26993 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
javascript_obj0006_000.js
b1b5ec6679d7b21047800ac790bff6d0b6c00cc9440389554a754ed7ea37d6f6
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0xF9 3484 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
189333bb9c4f2b74669c0a6f7b6a3be937d839eebfd522ed5d5845fe584a8f8b
deobfuscated-js split-join delimiter stripped JavaScript at offset 0xDB1 2147 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).