Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed5e66e60e859b99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2012-09-22 12:17:37 +04:00 Authoring application: Wordpress.com (via mPDF 5.0)
MD5: 1dd0270e86af6fbd19e382528061f058 SHA-1: 4160d541ee8b4fdb233b988cf3adfa207c2bc56a SHA-256: ed5e66e60e859b9975aa6945c932e7922c608a5d1ac62766af7ab3ef51e56011
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains embedded JavaScript. The JavaScript stream, named 'javascript_obj0038_000.js', exhibits obfuscation indicators. This suggests the script is designed to perform malicious actions, likely downloading and executing a secondary payload, which is a common technique for malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9103

Heuristics 3

  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0038_000.js
be63095b36d2a7a6bb2354eee6ea8f866bd67eb57984a872fcac65a5a9d7a885
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 38 at offset 0xD246 136 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long hex-escaped blob(s).
stream_004_off000017e8.bin
ded1520fd68b91798ef4502ba393be29e6762be445da6319489229b957e57958
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x17E8 17756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000045fa.bin
a8ed3909966b10c026f46212f55dce68c94667ce1ac039797d3ebfa1d644dacf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45FA 17892 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000743a.bin
4ee4e439b16220e78b319060a3d86ba95cd4b8614522dd4fa1d4df274793c516
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x743A 18720 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000a6c7.bin
e3eeacc5b1f780160b253f248c40fb29e5cb6416f62dd9413712ea70c37f26c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6C7 18756 bytes