Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4dbe54e472b50a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.6 KB Created: 2011-01-14 00:17:35 +02:00 Authoring application: http://google.wiki.usfca.edu/ (via mPDF 5.0)
MD5: d4ca4c9d13b4216c8768041f3f5b8ece SHA-1: 28f0fb728985db911d5b5d47efe63e6f1c00836c SHA-256: a4dbe54e472b50a45f7d9c23a81bf139eaff8fa7d92b208c2efed134e6204e37
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains embedded JavaScript. Heuristics indicate obfuscation within the JavaScript stream, suggesting it is designed to download and execute further malicious content. The document body is unreadable due to encoding issues, but the presence of obfuscated JavaScript is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9008

Heuristics 3

  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0038_000.js
a2620a0be21a26956e8296a3c8163c8c260cb6a920586f15a19c6e170ac30940
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 38 at offset 0xDA9E 136 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long hex-escaped blob(s).
stream_004_off0000200f.bin
eaf3d031124700fbe525cbaa3db4ce655e573e5a231e060b9ff3479e275d1269
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x200F 17852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00004e52.bin
a8ed3909966b10c026f46212f55dce68c94667ce1ac039797d3ebfa1d644dacf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E52 17892 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007c92.bin
4ee4e439b16220e78b319060a3d86ba95cd4b8614522dd4fa1d4df274793c516
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C92 18720 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000af1f.bin
e3eeacc5b1f780160b253f248c40fb29e5cb6416f62dd9413712ea70c37f26c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF1F 18756 bytes