Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a353c351f6b2e121…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB Created: 2010-08-01 07:24:19 Authoring application: Hyviqonazipa (via 570b3Hitardesozoweq)
MD5: d7cca47f7b37b6e5f28b0e3e8672ab31 SHA-1: e0d8f954989c26b185ee12520b2368dfae4776cb SHA-256: a353c351f6b2e1219518fb885807336fe180ac93ca623e1b546ab4f760d03e13
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded JavaScript, identified by the 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS' heuristics. The 'PDF_PAGE_WORD_XOR_EVAL_STAGER' heuristic indicates that this JavaScript is designed to launch a secondary payload. The ML classifier strongly supports a malicious classification. The extracted artifact 'javascript_obj0011_000.js' is likely the stager itself, which is expected to download and execute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • Page-word XOR JavaScript eval stager high PDF_PAGE_WORD_XOR_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF JavaScript enumerates rendered page words with getPageNthWord/getPageNumWords, extracts encoded byte fragments, XOR-decodes the stage with char-code helpers, and evals the result. This is an old exploit-kit staging pattern and is not normal document JavaScript.
  • JavaScript action low 1 related finding 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.
  • 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
javascript_obj0011_000.js
570ce70ed7a43c6e1927e21ed2d859a652b5905478e192c8b3e32f233141b7a1
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 11 at offset 0xEA4 540 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).