Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e85099b2bc559575…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.9 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: lice (via ubst)
MD5: efb3cc83c7350e24ec98b7d339d1ef35 SHA-1: 47bff6f413c7dbdc20ef65b380027f0f397ae935 SHA-256: e85099b2bc5595757935b93cf3f8924630e0b26afff5793cb05dfb917aa0b6bf
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94'. The presence of embedded JavaScript, indicated by heuristic firings and an extracted JS stream, suggests the document is designed to execute malicious code. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports the malicious nature of the file.

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
ea1ae0153e107eb5f9450c9d7fc01f5a8800a5a9b35934a1c4891aeefe68d702
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x955 50375 bytes