Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c965cdf481d3346f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.7 KB Created: 2012-04-17 19:53:38
MD5: 2b46165b9643322a55dabf20140ab8f5 SHA-1: 15a889ddde7e8d10d193e71ca8c8047609106217 SHA-256: c965cdf481d3346fedfd85c1237581f6e93842be6125a68b5d059781cf93d581
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious exploit. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic suggests the presence of a script designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely this payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
704d692732c7085f121bff3dab0e0d82d0e2189dd8a36e1eb8d531cd96102de2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xBAF 7163 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).