Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e78be1fe9c7345e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.4 KB Created: 2012-09-08 15:13:21
MD5: db4d3a6bbe5c385e034de2c27b339246 SHA-1: 2d35fd00e49048b334cc5851f2a27d5b7bf80ba0 SHA-256: 9e78be1fe9c7345ef8074aa2eb5d3ec41b87441323b9cefad0c8da5ee3358455
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with a high probability. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0007.bin', is likely the malicious payload. The document body contains fragmented text that does not provide clear user-facing lures, suggesting the exploit is the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
00b3cfa236062d2572e677cbfb1e6eb75bea83058186317aa7c47a8789943e48
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0xC1D 6969 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).