Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ffc24d621e72036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.3 KB Created: 2010-08-01 04:20:19 Authoring application: daceWis muleDoc
MD5: 04255bd018d6d561e27922dfdea2fbc3 SHA-1: d84028468668f3d880beb68dcb12c17c5fae277f SHA-256: 7ffc24d621e72036bca8b2dc1878b4b3f0738c9592cc2af47ce719a1e2d28030
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious with high confidence. It contains embedded files and a script payload, suggesting it's designed to deliver further malicious content or exploit vulnerabilities. The presence of embedded files and scripts points towards a multi-stage attack vector, likely initiated by a user opening the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 3

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x17AB 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x185C 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
0969943069bf67f457f530248c0644e3f7a27f4bb826c65333871cb40bdb8d9a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x194D 1096 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x1C0E 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
069340621de61586065ce9f3db2bd9e1bdaff923f093e53d642b5fe1d6f4136a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x1D01 54876 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x2A7C 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x2B23 56 bytes