Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80254a6d122258a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.1 KB Created: 2012-09-23 16:04:16
MD5: e8c30481af1e52b7452c5a3c16bc844d SHA-1: 566cd926ee6021f9881503483a560857baaaec2e SHA-256: 80254a6d122258a539e9700d3f4bb4555e8a2c32448841d9134d6501c6643869
132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML score. It contains embedded script payloads and multiple embedded files, indicating an attempt to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests a complex exploit chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Gen-259 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Gen-259
  • 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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x20B 130 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
1d3badc9f87454905e198563a612f74ecf4d2bc0e62f33b04dd6ec86ddfb4ced
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x4A3 175 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0005.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 5 at offset 0x5A2 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x64B 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0017.bin
d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 17 at offset 0x754 201 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
2c84a85704f79c6ac3044065ce71116389efb681f2ed1b56ecf57f55f7e35067
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0xAA5 35727 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).