Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff45a37f3848e5ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Authoring application: saerb
MD5: bb1bdce2d65089f88efaf6f54b0a190b SHA-1: 8b276b88525a1455a5e8f5e4cf43d7b075b70caf SHA-256: ff45a37f3848e5abbe350c933e81e39a753dae4a4345a864dec7f72ad74a518d
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript file, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript is likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for delivering malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000002e9.js
812fd55017c6051d5e1883946345cdd3b8fe6f40793fa7b02a84967ee9632c4d
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E9 65176 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).