Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd17763e6aeceffa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB
MD5: 0a1b3ca998616b43c502022c405d49e0 SHA-1: 5deec9b0db414bda1a0ac81fa5f1a043d67309a1 SHA-256: fd17763e6aeceffa1a7092c9aec1b41d13d1a02ec0ca498051670abaff541e64
114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV due to obfuscated JavaScript content. The embedded JavaScript stream, named 'javascript_obj0012_000.js', is highly likely to be responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. While the exact execution chain is obfuscated, the presence of JavaScript within a PDF strongly suggests an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities or trick the user into running malicious code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9608

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0012_000.js
82b229b62fc05b3d14ee55c0c22e45a3c4234fbbcfdbb66c9585c6a78ca7c0e3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 12 at offset 0xA1D3 4171 bytes