Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5b3d8b15cb729ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.9 KB Authoring application: sli
MD5: 10008785078dc800b038bb19d16720ad SHA-1: 1eae1b05f22bbf99253f8a4fe261d4b4ffc082c8 SHA-256: a5b3d8b15cb729efef5592361e2fa11da29fbe814bbd066733a9b08e3b63e638
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV with the signature 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-91', indicating it exploits a known PDF vulnerability. The presence of embedded JavaScript, further confirmed by the 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS' heuristics, strongly suggests that the script is responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ML classifier also provided a very high confidence score for maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-91 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-91
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0076_000.js
7d7d0a6d2f5f5b5105963cfa03665e87384169e34f070cc045821a33b2346d29
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x426 549 bytes
deobfuscated.js
1a8722323e7879aff87726adabc5101b1ff8a6a308f1a0a2d4ff97597bad0d5b
deobfuscated-js PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass 1215 bytes