Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63a42bcd39a06326…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2016-02-19 09:08:56 +02:00 Authoring application: PScript5.dll Version 5.2 (via GPL Ghostscript 8.64)
MD5: 1592fecbf98501d4a9483b2d7d901361 SHA-1: e189c65a202e3b0e6fc89b5213fce8996e7eaa25 SHA-256: 63a42bcd39a063269d17efd515cf450092df9ac8c64d831d57543d44635bfeb9
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The primary heuristic indicates this PDF is designed as an advance-fee scam, using language related to prizes or parcels to deceive the user. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7266872-0 further confirms its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic strongly suggests a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0001

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7266872-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7266872-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_cff_off00005e72.bin
6c97fa4fffc7debc9a2cda0f03c959490146a726fb2a292e3046cd97eca9fd89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x5E72 7106 bytes
font_01_cff_off000078c3.bin
b6b299aedc3313d63ab883acc633f003c543e1dffa333746e6269404279be1fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x78C3 7338 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000939a.bin
bc2e5a44db84413ef3f491b82dd1664a1e005ab01bbabbcf1831ad81d7390c54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x939A 14524 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000ada0.bin
64acf01811879cd08def5101eb6e06b4789c0b97548dfc4f3fa5b0e6bfaed40a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADA0 13904 bytes