Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4290f912b8db042c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.1 KB Created: 2011-04-05 23:46:28 Authoring application: bgsfsdffab
MD5: 9ee79f85541a5b60cead789053e8f605 SHA-1: 9b0d13450223956b12536a66607e53f9c41fa5fb SHA-256: 4290f912b8db042cf85ece257c248634ae310bb32bdbfa864f3981c159000b08
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript file, 'stream_001_off00000326.js', is likely responsible for delivering the malicious payload. Further analysis of the script is required to determine its exact function, but its presence within a malicious PDF strongly suggests an exploit or downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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_off00000326.js
112198e86192aec6ae152a1b0d9d5e7f2c241de00b509f3bcff6de92dff576a8
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x326 55122 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).