Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 861fc3c895c80ae6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.3 KB
MD5: f10b1d304993007c43d159794746d788 SHA-1: 5a966ff966307e74ca31e223367f06451e63d62c SHA-256: 861fc3c895c80ae675c195e1fb71199430f623a21606af9397eec682cbd694dd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical rule indicating a VBScript-style decimal array that decodes to a PE payload. This suggests the document is designed to drop and execute a secondary executable. The embedded PE artifact, with SHA256 hash 1955243b556acdb862324551225a7d0f1afb8ff558751285c6dc3b1ab32b5850, is the likely payload. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7278957-0' further supports its role as a dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 3

  • VBScript-style decimal byte array decodes to a PE payload critical PDF_VBS_DECIMAL_ARRAY_PE_PAYLOAD
    PDF comment text contains a VB/VBScript-style decimal byte array, such as c(077),c(090), that decodes to a verified Windows PE executable. The rule is gated on a comment-line Array(c(...)) assignment and a valid MZ/PE header to keep false positives low.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7278957-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7278957-0
  • 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
decimal_array_pdf_pe_00000229.exe
1955243b556acdb862324551225a7d0f1afb8ff558751285c6dc3b1ab32b5850
embedded-pe PDF raw comment decimal-array PE payload at offset 0x229 14530 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.74, consistent with packed or encrypted content.