Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5f33b9747d5520a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via substr)
MD5: 6a673eabdd57d051a99950184d505d82 SHA-1: c586b8ff183893cd1a0f4114b6776868787ad6ae SHA-256: f5f33b9747d5520a3de6171d54bf856e85ec8a355f2b0018cdd4ee41406494f8
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94' strongly suggests this JavaScript is malicious. The embedded JavaScript is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability within PDF viewers to download and execute a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'Dropped' designation in the ClamAV signature. The document body content is not user-facing and appears to be metadata or internal data.

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
a6cbd05f09604df9ab2d7ce2858ba4a123587c30acbb8314b0e566b94913869e
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x99C 45754 bytes