Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6f7b4fca6791f58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via substr)
MD5: b21dea3dd22bd3f2a3e2ddde12505851 SHA-1: fa76b1f79e50deef84acccf36e589416c0672b63 SHA-256: c6f7b4fca6791f589ae7282d642eed524a63a697660c5078b7965e5af768e659
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94. The presence of JavaScript actions and embedded JS streams indicates an attempt to execute malicious code. The ML classifier's high confidence score and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is a dropper for further malicious content.

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
1b7ebc3fdf855a45f20410bb39a806c433b73af0363082e061402b1ace6d205f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x999 45247 bytes