Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6900bde78ca3909…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.9 KB Created: 2008-08-19 12:14:36 Authoring application: avast5IL
MD5: d8bb1c484b8d11e1f93cc3e910c4ee9c SHA-1: 9c32097fdc82d43ece3c23441ec6dec9ba0c9660 SHA-256: a6900bde78ca39092c07aea1448a3afd69e6cdaf8f097211ce46e20c869625b7
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF contains an embedded script payload and an embedded executable file, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE heuristics. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0012.bin' is likely the secondary payload. No document body text was available for analysis.

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
bf53c0dc9412112b36f7a270efae1a561ec27b8a96e1b6a2f066d0436282ddfc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3BE 1739 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x71B 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
b3f484c129e047b57f3177cd3e05b3505125dab3d4e26a7875f0c257d7e92268
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x80E 123442 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 0x1B0E 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x1BB6 56 bytes