Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c9c73cfb0e5c50e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via substr)
MD5: a6615c95688866823bfab39ceaa407bd SHA-1: 1c59c8242e0b0f96fd82999508d5864b25702bc0 SHA-256: 8c9c73cfb0e5c50e3e1e39e6644d40038f49f6960319299b09d29e71979502de
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to download and execute further malicious content. The ML classifier's high confidence score and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest this is a malicious dropper.

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
d21ffeb7b5454146f7647d99ecb54138fb86c2d0bcfed625018755bc65311e06
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x999 45562 bytes