Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c8ddb336a2127cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2019-03-17 02:33:42 +03:00 Authoring application: LaTeX with hyperref package (via pdfTeX-1.40.17)
MD5: be22481b2a9016fb1309a1fde616b0bf SHA-1: c322d28c80308f816b7a8402b50679c4f6d0f44c SHA-256: 4c8ddb336a2127cdf6b592453629c27a03f0421c7e70c7fe2096b66333742c3d
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for an external URI pointing to a PDF file, and another for a password-protected archive lure. This suggests the document is designed to trick the user into downloading a password-protected file, likely containing malware. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8859

Heuristics 3

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
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