Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f40fb1d13b27ea5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.4 KB Created: 2012-08-04 17:40:47
MD5: 288de7d25a8ae7e95817aca97d1853d7 SHA-1: fc635eea3302c18ad5c36dd036e394b19b7224c2 SHA-256: f40fb1d13b27ea5b71a095fc1c5fa29ce1cf5a50485b23b81dd8e0a5286ce8fa
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as highly malicious. Static analysis identified an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, and an embedded file artifact was also extracted. The presence of these elements strongly suggests the document is designed to exploit a PDF vulnerability and deliver a secondary malicious payload, likely contained within the embedded file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
e98320734289bb3598b6cacf775cc92664e2fdb753f532f191ec0792c1981aef
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0xB97 6910 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).