Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b517cf951c81e5a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.9 KB Created: 2012-04-27 17:25:24
MD5: 1512b97f41773b4f73a758c8d38c628e SHA-1: d1c8079990eeed0d3b65a0087d6c3e4233dd89cb SHA-256: b517cf951c81e5a83b19540d39dda39254a657130e304b4601215dc059c4c23f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1'. The ML classifier also assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests that this document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and download a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
d4f3fee0f5f367a23a512efd78ba3ed421a91cabbf2b38830b95330151a0afe3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0xCB8 7229 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).