Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8df5763ddfc9c77d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB
MD5: 2c7091297bb5ae52f94fbc2e8a63ada0 SHA-1: 69a4760780baa299284bec9b8a2ebfad7dd8f10b SHA-256: 8df5763ddfc9c77d0a7a0292fb6c5ef840fe751ebbfbac3c561cf9d2dda1fc58
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high score. While the document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, the presence of JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which are known to be exploited in PDF-based attacks. No specific malware family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0012_000.js
18e5ddda4b7ae3078d77fefa206b6cf1033f7f9ecc8b7cd0d00ed1457d17b4cf
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 12 at offset 0xA1F4 4262 bytes