Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de9c028ac95a2084…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.3 KB
MD5: fe471003748d0acb0644412c09b9596f SHA-1: 08dadca2893a3b2f1361e41191bc87ff2da2374d SHA-256: de9c028ac95a2084b9af2ade11d2e79ae43c43df4e00f271011b45cdcf3bed75
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains obfuscated JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics. ClamAV also flagged it as Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject. The embedded JavaScript file, javascript_obj0013_000.js, is suspicious and likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. Due to the obfuscation, the exact nature of the payload and its delivery mechanism cannot be definitively determined.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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.
  • 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
javascript_obj0013_000.js
5b015d31c144015440d24f6a213a836e45724c8ec953df3274262853c2306e9f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x318 29208 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).