Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58959c04e67b6ef7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.6 KB Created: 2012-04-17 19:53:38
MD5: 54fcae6597b106092af017e63371aa1d SHA-1: 81fbd5543105a16e3b965c15bed377e5af923507 SHA-256: 58959c04e67b6ef75c30f0a01831db9e5ac19a3b7921c070415b23fb2f9dc5ea
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1. Static analysis revealed embedded content and a script payload within a PDF stream, indicating an exploit delivery mechanism. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', likely contains the secondary payload.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1
  • 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_obj0008.bin
22608c277d12124ed9ce9671947936025ed348e3ea07d7ca32858d156e75b41a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xBAF 7163 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).