Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d7b8c2d6305eff4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB
MD5: 1f21b4eb9d75139192c0c6e91d4bf2a7 SHA-1: 5a0ff98792e0c4525d27fd10af74504598117c99 SHA-256: 7d7b8c2d6305eff471a110bbfa27266ee8dbdc00baa6e5c0c3c68eb461be3ec7
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1559.002 Component Object Model Hijacking T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file exhibits multiple high-severity heuristic firings, including embedded Flash (RichMedia) and JavaScript streams. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of an embedded SWF file and a JavaScript object suggests the document is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely for exploitation or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA
    PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • 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 file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
Adobe.swf
ce5f7936cf8e3536a88a804ce2d6902022df1794fa878bdc64a26866e34ba989
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0xAB9 55839 bytes
javascript_obj0006_000.js
aa2ca2c094bf5cff959dc9a1b67140d38c7386d76caa9fa0972a712ee92e2354
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0xF5 1558 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).