Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e139b0d3b5e3cd06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.50 MB Created: 2006-08-01 23:10:38 UTC Authoring application: Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows)
MD5: 7c6118cef9ae78f1e73b3d5e33fa8862 SHA-1: 6f0ce8733eea0d0ad4be6ac7fdf2a8e6f5909b84 SHA-256: e139b0d3b5e3cd06a2c5712a64d3281112cb64b0d88a02c93f1640978fa0c21d
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded JavaScript streams and triggers, indicating an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-2836' strongly suggests malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript actions likely serve to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for initial access.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-2836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-2836
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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.jimkeogh.com/dtds/web-app.dtd)/S/URI
    • http://java.sun.com)/S/URI
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://dx.doi.org/10.1036/0072262109)/S/URI
    • http://www.iec.ch
    • http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema)/S/URI
    • http://saxon.sourceforge.net/)/S/URI
    • http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.aspx)/S/URI
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 32

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj1244_000.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1244 at offset 0xF27F8 41 bytes
javascript_obj1245_001.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1245 at offset 0xF284B 41 bytes
javascript_obj1246_002.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1246 at offset 0xF289E 42 bytes
javascript_obj1247_003.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1247 at offset 0xF28F2 42 bytes
javascript_obj1248_004.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1248 at offset 0xF2946 41 bytes
javascript_obj1249_005.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1249 at offset 0xF2999 42 bytes
javascript_obj1250_006.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1250 at offset 0xF29ED 41 bytes
javascript_obj1251_007.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1251 at offset 0xF2A40 41 bytes
javascript_obj1252_008.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1252 at offset 0xF2A93 42 bytes
javascript_obj1253_009.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1253 at offset 0xF2AE7 42 bytes
javascript_obj1254_010.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1254 at offset 0xF2B3B 41 bytes
javascript_obj1255_011.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1255 at offset 0xF2B8E 42 bytes
javascript_obj1258_012.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1258 at offset 0xF2C8A 41 bytes
javascript_obj1259_013.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1259 at offset 0xF2CDD 41 bytes
javascript_obj1260_014.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1260 at offset 0xF2D30 41 bytes
javascript_obj1261_015.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1261 at offset 0xF2D83 41 bytes
javascript_obj1262_016.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1262 at offset 0xF2DD6 41 bytes
javascript_obj1263_017.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1263 at offset 0xF2E29 41 bytes
javascript_obj1267_018.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1267 at offset 0xF2F75 41 bytes
javascript_obj1274_019.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1274 at offset 0xF31BD 42 bytes
javascript_obj1276_020.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1276 at offset 0xF3264 41 bytes
javascript_obj1277_021.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1277 at offset 0xF32B7 42 bytes
javascript_obj1278_022.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1278 at offset 0xF330B 41 bytes
javascript_obj1279_023.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1279 at offset 0xF335E 41 bytes
javascript_obj1282_024.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1282 at offset 0xF3457 41 bytes
javascript_obj1284_025.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1284 at offset 0xF34FD 41 bytes
javascript_obj1286_026.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1286 at offset 0xF35A3 42 bytes
javascript_obj1287_027.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1287 at offset 0xF35F7 42 bytes
javascript_obj1288_028.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1288 at offset 0xF364B 41 bytes
javascript_obj1290_029.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1290 at offset 0xF36F1 41 bytes
javascript_obj1291_030.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1291 at offset 0xF3744 41 bytes
javascript_obj1292_031.js
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pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 1292 at offset 0xF3797 41 bytes