Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a96af77f3443410…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.0 KB Created: 2011-11-02 19:21:39 +04:00 Authoring application: Adobe Acrobat 10.0 (via Acrobat Web Capture 10.0)
MD5: eda8e731ca83f7bd2cef4c4ef43ebe71 SHA-1: d79a2b467b11589f40d711bc240e7e41ae280b27 SHA-256: 6a96af77f34434103aa45b88f689b3f45b88dde45211dd5955df388e4240c0ae
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically identified as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36776'. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities in PDF readers to execute arbitrary code. The JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, although the exact URL is obfuscated within the script.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36776 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36776
  • 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 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://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://www.iec.ch

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0024_000.js
0682418c7efaa33851ee2bb51ea423e85ebce2011abd75245f43735bcbaef7b6
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 24 at offset 0x2617 11303 bytes
icc_00_off000018a6.icc
653b586c4707574ffcd648ba35494daed2c76ceafcf4c07d315ed961b1dc347f
pdf-icc-profile PDF ICC profile at offset 0x18A6 408 bytes
icc_01_off00001a00.icc
2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e
pdf-icc-profile PDF ICC profile at offset 0x1A00 3144 bytes