Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3bcc5549b5d0125…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.9 KB Created: 2008-08-19 12:14:36 Authoring application: avast5YH
MD5: 2850d47b7cabfca0fe6650f7e3c655fc SHA-1: 8a376341245b7d85895955cc967756369ef9c21d SHA-256: a3bcc5549b5d01251fa6b0841920eb0543ff1a31a0357c40ea27ea6132cfc56d
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious with a high confidence score. It contains an embedded script payload, identified by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic, which is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary malicious file, as indicated by the presence of embedded_file_obj0012.bin. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x21C 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x2CD 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
2a467cab1d57a1df3843fa6c9251122d07cb96f75dc7b2358000842ebd8f7373
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3BE 1753 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x722 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
cca09a619c4d0c89c314c43e5952629c1191277a8c79bbf39a17067cf83f79ff
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x815 122906 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x1ADD 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x1B85 56 bytes