Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed53a65bdb8e09d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.9 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via ubst)
MD5: dd4788626a30bbca4d8a071357338aad SHA-1: 8206704c9834bcab8955606dc951f5730e777164 SHA-256: ed53a65bdb8e09d074f8f9fb4facfb117e1af371fdc73b7aae24575d0c3c25c5
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94) and a machine learning classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by heuristic firings for PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. The presence of JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The document body contains metadata and copyright information but no user-facing content that would indicate a specific lure.

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
25131bbaca572289f50f129b7bc16f421d38941cfbb977becc6c0f94d2da5ed9
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x99A 50359 bytes