Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd537fdc32a57871…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.6 KB Created: 2011-01-14 00:19:13 +02:00 Authoring application: http://google.wiki.usfca.edu/ (via mPDF 5.0)
MD5: 1c82759bfc7e3e0267ac71ba39c0b9cc SHA-1: 4dd88753a9b6c57200295d686b7bdcb44f0c10af SHA-256: cd537fdc32a578711a3f97bbf45f23536686d8cb444bd51f3cf664ed01af12ba
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains embedded JavaScript. Heuristics indicate obfuscation and suspicious extracted artifacts, specifically a JavaScript file. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, which is a common technique for malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9008

Heuristics 3

  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0038_000.js
a2620a0be21a26956e8296a3c8163c8c260cb6a920586f15a19c6e170ac30940
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 38 at offset 0xDAC2 136 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long hex-escaped blob(s).
stream_004_off0000205b.bin
dcd1ba64d747e0bf0b9b8ecc270a7bea07ca4cd5917a768cd217f1d51287033b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x205B 17772 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00004e76.bin
a8ed3909966b10c026f46212f55dce68c94667ce1ac039797d3ebfa1d644dacf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E76 17892 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007cb6.bin
4ee4e439b16220e78b319060a3d86ba95cd4b8614522dd4fa1d4df274793c516
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB6 18720 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000af43.bin
e3eeacc5b1f780160b253f248c40fb29e5cb6416f62dd9413712ea70c37f26c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF43 18756 bytes