PDF malware analysis — malicious · 97225fc4be113427

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB Created: 2011-05-11 17:19:01 Authoring application: N5C7

MD5: 15a1608c7549e83b653e3bfea1917d18 SHA-1: ab3d50e1d2e9cd436c2e8f96a6cb61311fadcd7c SHA-256: 97225fc4be11342786c3c65c3b4625a644613d845c5e7cf247a9b1694507e990

152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is obfuscated and likely malicious, as indicated by multiple high-severity heuristics including 'PDF_UNESCAPE', 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD', and 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT'. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. The extracted JavaScript artifact, 'stream_002_off00000318.js', is the primary indicator of malicious activity, suggesting it's designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_002_off00000318.js` `94be07cd2cb8b09f3437038926a5738a072e3e5da655ca20d284711396bac49d`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x318	61203 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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