Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 847d4ad10a55255b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB
MD5: a888748a3ee306a82bde4da902ada534 SHA-1: d27c3a657948eb0239f6821ebcdf4bacab12741c SHA-256: 847d4ad10a55255b45bb692da25a8972854c1fabd2f519076fddec52ca1bf8b0
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits multiple indicators of malicious activity, including embedded JavaScript and Flash content, along with heuristic firings related to JavaScript actions and exploit indicators. The presence of an embedded JavaScript file suggests an attempt to execute code. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be leveraging embedded objects within the PDF to execute malicious code, likely for further payload delivery or exploitation.

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 0xAB5 55839 bytes
javascript_obj0006_000.js
450126f4675bbb70f2c02f8bcf0187787d922b8c07cddbfb9e8bf41a1ee9ac90
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0xF5 1552 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).