Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5475ea61952e894…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via substr)
MD5: ae314849c467c09d3edba0fb2cf1dd4c SHA-1: 3fc0727ba43ed8fcbd72f327256d84e4a6e0126c SHA-256: c5475ea61952e894091b35dba77fd25540cee0763b712bb36889c0e28dccdbbd
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 and a machine learning classifier. Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities and download further malicious content. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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
b80d31797bbf4f8c9d6b696f47dcfcd40eed45aff0987142d30dd74af15bc7e1
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x99C 45622 bytes