Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d0b3b16c6a53fa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB Authoring application: sarb
MD5: 9ccb5244864eba14b1b9884ccca525a3 SHA-1: 5c441c786f4f54c6d459208a19cc5ff0a1dbf8de SHA-256: 7d0b3b16c6a53fa67a5a30fcd2ef89116ef0980b60caa46372f6c2bef51f65c3
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript file, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, although its specific actions are not detailed in the provided evidence. The 'wqerv eval deqfq sarb y' string in the document body appears to be obfuscated or malformed content, not user-readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
stream_001_off000002e5.js
69e086ebeaba99f7f128ed60adcf40834442d94485adbb81a899b49dc8f170fd
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E5 73115 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).