Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2e9109ea7e12670…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.8 KB Created: 2012-04-06 19:15:32
MD5: d7f106cc0cd0266371a775934b47f7e3 SHA-1: 134618143fc6fc442f32589dad743dccdadb8911 SHA-256: d2e9109ea7e1267020cc8dad0948d33eee9f83614a16355ff89737b7cfcc6537
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1. Static analysis detected an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, which is a common technique for delivering exploits. This embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary malicious payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic.

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_obj0010.bin
69120f355ed6e1c4bd9648f2951d1165f2f136bcc1819f84216bbbed5d3b17e9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0xC8A 6998 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).