Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acd01ee9d751cf03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

8.0 KB
MD5: 862a16b3d2c42126fa156475676679e9 SHA-1: 51d8f029d321ec839bbfc8d287b1aaa19ac21110 SHA-256: acd01ee9d751cf03dbc9e77d56a471a84fbe7a6444cda2024c546a783cff774d
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ML classifiers and specific rules for correlated malicious JavaScript. The presence of embedded JavaScript streams indicates an attempt to execute code. The document body is unreadable, but the JavaScript actions strongly suggest the file's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 3

  • Correlated malicious PDF JavaScript signals critical PDF_CORRELATED_MALICIOUS_JS
    PDF JavaScript or auto-action content is corroborated by exploit staging, ML, or suspicious extracted-artifact findings. This correlation promotes old exploit-kit PDFs that otherwise remain in the suspicious band because each individual signal is intentionally weighted conservatively.
  • 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.