Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bff32b8877a329e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

672.5 KB Created: 2010-09-11 23:35:31 Authoring application: Advanced PDF Repair at http://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/
MD5: 94c5e6a14626d3c18064da8a5a5864b7 SHA-1: 8af380fc04cdbe9c6bd94ca18c2ef9e746452a5c SHA-256: bff32b8877a329e03c7710ff8ebf361dd1eceda68be5df7c000e3e393e97d2b1
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple indicators of embedded JavaScript, including heuristic firings for PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. The presence of an embedded JavaScript file (javascript_obj0040_000.js) strongly suggests that the document is designed to execute malicious code. This script likely downloads and executes a secondary payload, which is a common technique for malware delivery. The overall risk score and unknown exploit score further support a malicious classification.

Heuristics 7

  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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.datanumen.com/apdfr/

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0040_000.js
4aee9c9401bb6e615a52dcbcb55ccb235a11196d6b3bd111c3abf20a829f6d56
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 40 at offset 0x20DA 12401 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
stream_001_off00000aef.bin
0f910ffeec733940f6ba1ae41dc6770eab5d615c05bccc95197878b62c8dc45f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xAEF 2928 bytes
stream_002_off00000e4d.bin
29cf1edfedd4f27f3c450646c5dc2510e6bf9e63eee1cd436ac517a465a2e1bf
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE4D 1650 bytes
stream_003_off000011bc.js
672d461752be4a970c8e9721164ce074d252b55d09d46cc09259d2ce4fc09f7f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x11BC 1546 bytes
stream_010_off00005a6c.bin
fe122a09d8a0444608fdc5a6f4981a2dbd469f5bbfacb4bdd327c28ccc343e13
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x5A6C 149 bytes
stream_011_off00005b20.bin
4a60a9864cdf7382475d51051a03fdc43b32c31eb508893ccfccece34957f9f1
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x5B20 56 bytes
font_00_cff_off000083e8.bin
ea8f409c7366ed46eeb553aa7b404f04641f482ba88463fbe253da60be5787e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x83E8 1138 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off0003c00f.pdf
3df945258f1622c335e58e13f1c5247ab6842bdab6bbbd72f455263ed22171d8
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x3C00F 442907 bytes