MALICIOUS
118
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics as a potential exploit. The JavaScript code, though obfuscated, is designed to execute and likely download additional malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent. The benign URLs extracted do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the JavaScript.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 6
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PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTERPDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
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JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPTPDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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Embedded JS stream low PDF_JSPDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODEString.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules.
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Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
- http://www.iec.ch
Extracted artifacts 3
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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javascript_obj0019_000.jsc4512433d033869192bda799ea97cfefdcab034bd3f1c7eae6c64f736631319d |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 19 at offset 0x2DE | 8268 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 10 long base64-like blob(s).
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icc_00_off000029e5.icc653b586c4707574ffcd648ba35494daed2c76ceafcf4c07d315ed961b1dc347f |
pdf-icc-profile | PDF ICC profile at offset 0x29E5 | 408 bytes |
icc_01_off00002c80.icc2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e |
pdf-icc-profile | PDF ICC profile at offset 0x2C80 | 3144 bytes |
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