Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c54773b8d886558f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

202.6 KB Created: 2010-07-26 16:38:32 Authoring application: Microsoft® Office Word 2007
MD5: bf1279abce313dfdd5fd29cd6e35addb SHA-1: f9c47f70021dba8a56e48b71e610155bb213e600 SHA-256: c54773b8d886558fa69667848a262c6b8ecb0534793dee692de5d671ad3cf0ed
84 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1566.002 Spearphishing via Service

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and utilizes ASCIIHexDecode and ASCII85Decode filters, indicating an attempt to obfuscate malicious code. The presence of heuristics related to CVE-2023-26369 suggests exploitation of a known vulnerability. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the exact mechanism is not fully discernible from the provided data. The document body contains URLs that are not definitively benign.

Heuristics 6

  • TrueType bitmap font + active content — CVE-2023-26369 related high CVE related PDF_CVE_2023_26369_RELATED
    PDF embeds a TrueType font with bitmap tables (EBDT/sbix/CBDT) alongside exploit delivery indicators — CVE-2023-26369 exploits the sfac_GetSbitBitmap function in Adobe's libCoolType for arbitrary code execution. This CVE was actively exploited in the wild, but this rule does not validate the malformed EBLC/EBDT primitive.
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • 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.
  • ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85
    ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
  • 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.color.org
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off00001f51.bin
1b3d79e17f65a53e314ece9e01b54b298fb91c87ba1abec996f3aa8ae086593b		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1F51 190988 bytes

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