Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbcd66da7c2c6d68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

192.0 KB
MD5: 549da57ce34602765b52ee13c770a814 SHA-1: 14a41f0723deb1efe1016f6306fcf043b655307f SHA-256: dbcd66da7c2c6d68072d8fef957356ada9de9921440cd4acb542ab07e87a2aa3
286 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a Flash object, as indicated by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT, PDF_JS, and PDF_RICHMEDIA heuristics. The critical PDF_EVAL and POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE firings, along with the ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955), confirm its malicious nature. The embedded artifacts, including a JavaScript file and a SWF file, suggest a multi-stage attack designed to download and execute additional malicious content.

Heuristics 9

  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA
    PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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 file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
zVGWPnPsl.swf
ae13437efad4e3a4f03cb0339d03b7d795966b217d30a540767c4ae26f402285
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x146D 26774 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
javascript_obj0006_000.js
178018cb8a7a5e2c6c4ee6e6d6ef777b6766d83315773fb58538dafb6c0a9e0a
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x13E 12119 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 10 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).
polyglot_child_pdf_off00026db5.pdf
ee6ca3a5e7e1ec6dd3411eb344bc5036a8a7988f35a2622e8624ba7c18e888fc
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x26DB5 37418 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely