Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7866edab7e257ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

8.9 KB Created: 2009-04-01 11:59:09 Authoring application: fTBTvgLTiRbKYzw (via OunamevgmhFex)
MD5: c91ff3f6777320533a10c0fd89646df8 SHA-1: 681bcc328126704280ae336510c2857c612f014d SHA-256: a7866edab7e257acf47e417f49d1f5c39956c51ea417acefbda2188b4fe6f333
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572 and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Embedded JavaScript, obfuscated and detected as a suspicious artifact, is present and likely responsible for executing the exploit. The document body contains generic text and does not provide specific lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
07dcde3357f49c84b0c74f1582c526aa1957b282c5e3bc1d08c83e6b315304ce
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x29E 7641 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).