Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5f5365659bbfc4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.4 KB Created: 2012-08-04 17:40:47
MD5: 9948a71100884bc94850474ae4fe2f32 SHA-1: 764d61fac84e6268db9ec774e91d417338d88f9e SHA-256: d5f5365659bbfc4aca06919ea8e6fdbbfe831475866e16ba18ddedcd2dea815c
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious with a high confidence score. Static analysis revealed an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating an attempt to deliver a secondary malicious artifact. The document body contains seemingly random text, which is common in obfuscated malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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_obj0011.bin
2c7a8b2df855f9f0284b65a52ce0bce9a3d5550437cf19c35ee0ce040692d902
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0xB97 6910 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).