Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f50e16b5b88f875b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB Created: 2009-11-15 19:41:70 Authoring application: PDF Library 4.3.9 (via PDF Library 3.9.7)
MD5: e4fd68f03fa57fb4a89b4963f5853772 SHA-1: 0e8dbf3e426443cc55f9829c15bace67da0b7186 SHA-256: f50e16b5b88f875b26d7c5640edffb45a503866256be148d748ff6db782f40c2
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including critical ClamAV detections for 'Win.Trojan.Agent-36166', indicating a known malicious signature. The presence of embedded JavaScript, identified by PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics, strongly suggests that the script is responsible for executing the malicious payload. The ML classifier also provided a very high confidence score for maliciousness. The document body content is unreadable, but the combination of JavaScript and ClamAV detection points to a malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Agent-36166 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Agent-36166
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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_obj0007_000.js
644532cd90bcc4a5c5b39cd50f651075dce0b351dfb0a21cb96d975f224f3551
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x1A5 75921 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Agent-36166
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely