Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f747499ce51db154…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 3972add741244f18de5e6c22c8e48560 SHA-1: c91ce15fc4c175fe592f3968eccf5888c4af7073 SHA-256: f747499ce51db15457bcf88a293f09e03603821a8979dd4e1778f86c6e075385
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection and high ML classifier score indicate this PDF is malicious. The PDF contains embedded script payloads and embedded files, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download further malicious content. The presence of embedded files and scripts points towards a dropper or exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0006.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x234 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x2E9 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
3e104dc15468b8c85d8e2a69f27dbfdd3c3ca52699d1ef2352ed54e35c0dc849
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x3DD 1267 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x718 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
0436e39da9782058e784bed6136da4afa2ab6298eccc6a195b986202178fdefa
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x80F 10395 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x1153 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x11FE 56 bytes