Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e17112816a8b2941…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via substr)
MD5: de8d54501f93dddc035628664bf4c7c5 SHA-1: 1f537faff3551c4f988cad337ca618b4b10fae42 SHA-256: e17112816a8b29411405f99be21e3c2f644729078073a6a4354d523dde8e62a7
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-severity ML classifier and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94'. The presence of embedded JavaScript actions and streams indicates that the PDF is designed to execute malicious code. The ML classifier's output of 0.999989 strongly suggests a malicious intent, likely to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0076_000.js
d3727b298f1c1dadcc7efc12c353f062d2efdc4c3c135530927ba2cd85314514
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x99C 45623 bytes