Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91fb98947a2dd485…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.2 KB
MD5: e648ca5fdfdd49625413209d8c5ece25 SHA-1: a5853cc7119d404cd9b2dc527981afdb8ad5ad9c SHA-256: 91fb98947a2dd485e9904021087eb6ebfda65e7142aae712415162c9f5195562
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file exhibits multiple high-severity heuristic firings, including PDF_RICHMEDIA and PDF_EVAL, indicating the presence of potentially malicious content. Embedded artifacts such as a SWF file and JavaScript streams (legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js) suggest an attempt to execute code or exploit vulnerabilities. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA
    PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
TyPWoIJRMY.swf
767382813fc770c9716554c3266b22eee1636037ca964af05acf6ff66db4a27d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x119A 26993 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
javascript_obj0006_000.js
56c677d783cd6075c36bbbc25e1f985e9b130a39a3012afeee2586b02f1cbda8
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0xF9 3409 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
61206de69cebf02d75eeee7aaa0a2264979255c28e549a5e072e497b61dfd8ae
deobfuscated-js split-join delimiter stripped JavaScript at offset 0xDB1 2080 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).