Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9039e4c1c1341125…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB Created: 2012-06-11 17:19:01 Authoring application: IHT
MD5: 27a33b7aa5d4116b4ab716d8fa349693 SHA-1: ad8167ee4e7ef3db765febb3e4892d72006e9ed4 SHA-256: 9039e4c1c1341125c507d2d598444f94d3776b691671a820b3b57d19f4bcd186
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript file, identified by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. This script is likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' flag and the presence of a suspicious JavaScript file. The embedded nature of the script and the ML classification strongly suggest a malicious intent to deliver further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
stream_002_off00000317.js
8f77d4f9a8ee2d6df3a8c84d68f9ed3d141dfa8471e6c543adadbf0c6fd1dbcc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x317 61600 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).