Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eeeae7e5fc52898…

MALICIOUS

PDF

298 B
MD5: dd2adb499da6a08568eb24e2f8ebb996 SHA-1: 507b595a2145519ed58a1163f728aca422621242 SHA-256: 5eeeae7e5fc52898d244510e5b1277f8e254b21e0cb193b6e8a8d01ff46c3d88
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an OpenAction trigger and a Launch action that attempts to open the URL www.google.com. While the URL itself is benign, the presence of these actions indicates an attempt to execute external content, a common technique for malware delivery. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 3

  • Launch action critical PDF_LAUNCH
    PDF contains a /Launch action whose target is an executable, URL, or UNC path — can start an external application
  • OpenAction trigger high PDF_OPENACTION
    PDF has an /OpenAction that launches, submits, or opens an external target
  • /Launch action target: www.google.com high PDF_LAUNCH_COMMAND
    PDF /Launch action specifies an executable target.