Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a48b9db88ee8338a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

187.3 KB
MD5: a354f25a94fef1247d4fccb41c559b34 SHA-1: 4749686cc1297c5b28a25ac36b33e39e9ddf10bc SHA-256: a48b9db88ee8338a0fa17c98b77010932dec83228c2240f89ac590ce29dfee56
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is heavily obfuscated using eval() and unescape() functions. This script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of a polyglot child PDF further indicates a multi-stage attack. The heuristics strongly suggest malicious JavaScript execution within the PDF.

Heuristics 7

  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0052_000.js
45fea71ee6347153ec3719ebc3910509cd6fa568f263c29e7474c694308f5c7d		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 52 at offset 0x3F4E 301 bytes
javascript_obj0059_001.js
28d6113dc29ef94de179a1345b6983a9d947da00c945e958d0554de4748a5164		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 59 at offset 0x6483 2612 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).
stream_005_off00000b74.bin
e4217c167299ac63f64b8b7e903cc0196f0828693d273431b8b793a12ed0fed3		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB74 1000 bytes
objstm_0053_00.bin
f9797d0fa28384c30d8bf1da89163104ce539753e417fa1f9c5fd135d1eceb39		 pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 53 0 obj (inflated) 50 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00028165.pdf
fb2b52d852722f9b426665a5f60047fc463cd643a8f13b317d15efab7307f861		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x28165 27574 bytes

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