Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1b4d7f189ce18b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via substr)
MD5: 04780c8da39506a1f6aecfbcdf3a40d0 SHA-1: 1c88c3ab69b39d408312bb7a48220bf5c630bb04 SHA-256: a1b4d7f189ce18b1c0125887235054f2f6c5fa3df64598ce6aec6678aac4d20f
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94' and a machine learning classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Embedded JavaScript, totaling 45524 bytes, is present and likely responsible for executing the exploit. The document body contains metadata suggesting it was created by Acrobat PDFMaker, but the core functionality appears to be malicious exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0076_000.js
eef262cb22cc2aed8fd181d3756f230539041c4ea6a0c8342d2a90fee0863b98
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x99C 45524 bytes