Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 890ad60b8d494fd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: lice (via ubst)
MD5: 312ed8b89720d94b68b3adbf5c6adefe SHA-1: 90fdf6640720acde6b2b47493ba746ebb848bc83 SHA-256: 890ad60b8d494fd891c386a3ba6c9a696e878b2f6dfe710fadf9e154936690b3
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics and identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94. The JavaScript code is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload. This is a common technique for delivering malware via malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0076_000.js
5b4f2ecdc9c5b2f4cad8e70154501963a9430f54109295688b1734b4d709ff07
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x955 50378 bytes