Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cfc719c5e7f9497…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.9 KB Created: 2008-08-19 12:14:36 Authoring application: avast5WS
MD5: b895f8289a8e3f7b23149673382a8cc5 SHA-1: b85ae12da818f0c32fff4d6fcfebc3f254f60448 SHA-256: 8cfc719c5e7f94975933f18222d643fe4f76f64a8aa4284ff83600b5d7c19cfe
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF contains an embedded script payload. The presence of an embedded file, specifically 'embedded_file_obj0012.bin', suggests it is intended to be extracted and executed by the user, likely leading to a secondary stage download or execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x21C 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x2CD 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
d5f3a9d34bf5f0e7d37699e6a949e0e881d6acacc529f9a85be5143757b20515
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3BE 1757 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x720 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
23d52dbc51b51f677406d5760b98b468c8764083e4d7867372df3fad4c2eb6cc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x813 123206 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x1B24 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x1BCC 56 bytes