Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99f8f7c13cbdeaa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

827.1 KB
MD5: 888db6dd24adfee002d0979722be2683 SHA-1: 13acbd390a0e44d7e2266401dcd659e394e99dfa SHA-256: 99f8f7c13cbdeaa5cf70746a7230a7ead9a0afa2789b785bf712d294edbe1424
84 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS'. The ClamAV detection 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject' further suggests malicious intent. While the document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, the presence of JavaScript strongly implies an attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload. The extracted URLs are related to XFA forms, which are often exploited in PDF-based attacks.

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
c4ba3591c3074e8fbc2f51681f2267ae4d6650196a96437268cf3aa864f515e3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 12 at offset 0xCE04A 5835 bytes