Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8a04d369ca434fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.2 KB Created: 2009-12-21 16:55:35 +08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿcer(Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (Windows) (via Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (Windows))
MD5: c49d8f54f8f4485263b188f3a236fffe SHA-1: 2ac195cfe6ad4d8ca7abcf14f09553ef5339a254 SHA-256: d8a04d369ca434fe9cb6744ee6b32d46b56f4c2e79b4238ddc3e3717f846c06e
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-23530' strongly indicates malicious intent. Additionally, the presence of PDF JavaScript actions and embedded JS streams suggests the file attempts to leverage a PDF vulnerability to execute code. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, though its exact functionality is obscured.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-23530 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-23530
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0043_000.js
6a4feff50242ca48bccb7b8303874c63d44c492cea43499d20ce94d354dc031d
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 43 at offset 0x2430 2172 bytes