Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ada360e55d4c8740…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.8 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: lice (via ubst)
MD5: bc5976ed6da5671f762ce3a42b03c229 SHA-1: 3810f7f900795e5a824b9719a044e7e57c62fe95 SHA-256: ada360e55d4c87407c9effdb88c351887feaec2e09162f8368c7f7d919e33aca
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94) and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded JavaScript, suggesting an exploit attempt. The embedded JavaScript, although large, is likely responsible for the malicious behavior, potentially downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0076_000.js
bf90f20ab783de39558d0513534fd7fd31c21f79e0a254192ea5ea9a44ee69e4
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x955 51259 bytes