Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5680f0adc0b4ab8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via subst)
MD5: 1613110627a55505a90baa844a3cdc47 SHA-1: 8d4eee9f64160d650693fea750969a25fe9ea8ad SHA-256: b5680f0adc0b4ab8c6ef82a1f6af919c2c2829e6cbaeb9dd23d25c1ff6ea42da
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94. It contains embedded JavaScript, indicating it likely attempts to exploit PDF vulnerabilities to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ML classifier output of 0.999989 strongly supports the malicious classification.

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
2cf74f8142a4eae1604cc59b640f6cda29647f7d5c55cc2bc38d495a44086e8f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x99B 46266 bytes