Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6ffc8b0b0df61ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.1 KB Created: 2011-04-05 23:46:28 Authoring application: bgsfsdffab
MD5: bcf5fc0a5599b20eb5c3f646dbba83b5 SHA-1: 14d07def4c56dbfd773aaf8abdf82750f8519228 SHA-256: b6ffc8b0b0df61ea8ebd4fe29b559a6bf9ec916740eb470c4e83fb6f380aec33
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript file, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript file, stream_001_off00000326.js, is the primary artifact likely responsible for executing the malicious payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests a complex delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
stream_001_off00000326.js
6a16573ff7daec8100adf206b5a65124963491727fe8efa5c9da5a5571093472
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x326 55122 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).