Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef6b1b3bcb928a11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB
MD5: 06f64348af824478a12de75c6164d010 SHA-1: 36e60ea63b8adbd0b2ae865d3a979c9fb3f09d27 SHA-256: ef6b1b3bcb928a11d6d457d65f1ce3f4a345c317d496ac3d7c7774e850fe800c
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits multiple indicators of malicious activity, including embedded JavaScript and Flash content, as well as heuristic firings related to JavaScript actions and potential exploit indicators. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript file, 'javascript_obj0006_000.js', is highly suspicious and likely responsible for executing the malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA
    PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
Adobe.swf
ce5f7936cf8e3536a88a804ce2d6902022df1794fa878bdc64a26866e34ba989
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0xAB1 55839 bytes
javascript_obj0006_000.js
48147ad1d57799c1a87a6e5bf47b475926dbae69a9a6a85e68d438eda4865119
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0xF5 1552 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).