Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b288e41d8f93bb4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.5 KB Created: 2008-04-28 12:17:40 +03:00
MD5: 916fd6cf799752423d1c1ab84b78fcb6 SHA-1: da7b98e4708aa5af7ed7d2cd5b0c7e9d5b347967 SHA-256: b288e41d8f93bb4e85207599a8bdd29f662610606d390a98e16457cbbd4b36df
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT, PDF_JS, and PDF_EVAL. The eval() call within the JavaScript stream suggests dynamic code execution. An embedded JavaScript file, 'javascript_obj0016_000.js', was also extracted. The presence of these elements strongly suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute malicious code, likely to download a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0016_000.js
2db6b8cb0473f82b16439e554d3855ba71bd6157c236562b271048a0f80c7fc9		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 16 at offset 0x931 7066 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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