Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 553e447f383ebc71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.1 KB Created: 2008-04-28 12:17:40 +03:00
MD5: 1813d7466bc6987acf2b6eeb40a6c3c0 SHA-1: c2bfe277ec719a412ee62ab17272bd9b7dace52e SHA-256: 553e447f383ebc71da8581d7f408543a4c9fc728e0f7242b9dd26a52f7dac0c6
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript file, 'javascript_obj0016_000.js', is the primary artifact suggesting malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. No specific malware family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.
  • 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.
    URL http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0016_000.js
b17cb787a5693eb653359a00f7ee9d601757b3bab0f729f27b8b9166efbba525
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 16 at offset 0xEFA 7623 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).