Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 472546fa21d8e117…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.1 KB Created: 2012-09-21 13:52:08
MD5: f9923304b2624e5cf12a853299f23e34 SHA-1: 36557195a10788979e68b739db1f1a06eb6beac8 SHA-256: 472546fa21d8e11708d6527572912b43cbe97f708b07d150714cf93ac64867f3
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The PDF sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0007.bin' is likely the malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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_obj0007.bin
e777e7e0e5bb34aea5eb1bf05237f694a0a5dfd6c13c3c38b9dc0e7563b7c719
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0xB54 6948 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).