Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96fc62693b43a601…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.9 KB Created: 2008-08-19 12:14:36 Authoring application: avast5NV
MD5: cc1ca287c506fa699960fd75c0adaaa7 SHA-1: ab2c67c6e8e85df7040c703d8aef78126c03e4d0 SHA-256: 96fc62693b43a601ad87f1ad7112baadee7a2faa242090d39c1fbeb5e3683d93
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious with a high score. Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded files and scripts, with one embedded file being particularly large. This suggests the PDF is a dropper or downloader for a secondary malicious payload.

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
72b95e47152a118c8d41a84d9409d558e30eaa4f28625a396125d49ed73f1ccf
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3BE 1734 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x719 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
65aa0a3b1d3673aeacba20e2918f98f072c9deabe03b55f66751ac7f307044e1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x80C 123064 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 0x1B0C 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x1BB4 56 bytes