Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4abb7fc7cf12a23a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB
MD5: f1d2afc355c428547e125f4b20aa9b43 SHA-1: fe85785bd99b3020b2ac1fd2a8d8845527eeebf1 SHA-256: 4abb7fc7cf12a23a298b6d7be15b711d22dd09d83f1c7743eb19e87f26ad5115
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high probability. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the delivered payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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: PSSyntaxError. 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
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
af60aec7c3e4e7c8ede4eded768b2a4cb9328bfc0f28e812138a94b6f9979ad5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x26F 25241 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).