Malicious PDF / .JPG — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0b28864f1b3781c…

MALICIOUS

PDF / .JPG

45.1 KB
MD5: da04339a72121d6a5dec4a9b123d7afd SHA-1: 42162ca1df4c6918174be592a658b95cdbd36b03 SHA-256: c0b28864f1b3781c195735b19b6504d2c97e7c68bc6cfedcc2ea4b081bda129d
114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating the presence of embedded JavaScript and XFA forms. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for executing malicious actions, such as downloading and executing additional payloads from external sources. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing content, further suggesting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9684

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0012_000.js
bcf4ef21cffa865d63d1b87ba4ffb509bf137c42f5d8dce93b234f812cfe4839
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 12 at offset 0xA1F7 3629 bytes