Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8d43545812d24f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

625.5 KB Created: 2010-09-11 23:35:31 Authoring application: Advanced PDF Repair at http://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/
MD5: ff1dd6e8f33db7af7b754314fdaa9081 SHA-1: faa74f3a1e52b1a7fd73addb4dd39ab4e30870a3 SHA-256: f8d43545812d24f1442a14b50fb7b26513d63164c7e406dbfcfd910b8cd0aa1c
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains embedded JavaScript. The JavaScript stream, identified as 'javascript_obj0040_000.js', is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristics. The presence of multiple 'PDF_FILTER_CHAIN_UNDECODABLE' rules suggests obfuscation techniques were employed.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 7

  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0040_000.js
ce454257c70ecbbb156c048a07aba64cfe105043b9191077b106828759ced4b1
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 40 at offset 0x20DA 12401 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
stream_001_off00000aef.bin
0f910ffeec733940f6ba1ae41dc6770eab5d615c05bccc95197878b62c8dc45f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xAEF 2928 bytes
stream_002_off00000e4d.bin
29cf1edfedd4f27f3c450646c5dc2510e6bf9e63eee1cd436ac517a465a2e1bf
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE4D 1650 bytes
stream_003_off000011bc.js
672d461752be4a970c8e9721164ce074d252b55d09d46cc09259d2ce4fc09f7f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x11BC 1546 bytes
stream_010_off00005a6c.bin
fe122a09d8a0444608fdc5a6f4981a2dbd469f5bbfacb4bdd327c28ccc343e13
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x5A6C 149 bytes
stream_011_off00005b20.bin
4a60a9864cdf7382475d51051a03fdc43b32c31eb508893ccfccece34957f9f1
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x5B20 56 bytes
font_00_cff_off000083e8.bin
ea8f409c7366ed46eeb553aa7b404f04641f482ba88463fbe253da60be5787e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x83E8 1138 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off0003c00f.pdf
b35d9ed4a72a7e450d3eff58aa2eb9f307eae7ffed9e256d7e8a37be38dc435f
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x3C00F 394779 bytes