Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb9876d1fb04150e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2006-02-16 15:03:51 -08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 7.0.5 for PowerPoint (via subst)
MD5: 0cd94959f9f4a58480edd2c7a9363607 SHA-1: ddfc6cb887e89c317b3a1e20faf82104bd553999 SHA-256: fb9876d1fb04150eaf489ae10e16145c3d28d64a651a66db6197852051a255e8
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94. The presence of embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics, suggests an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader. This JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary malicious payload, a common technique for initial access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
58fd059fb00d52f26f86851bbcbf8797aecd7ee0e25223bbf161ffd4aad2aa98
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x99B 46103 bytes