Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c11f6ffceb04e6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

134.5 KB
MD5: d2b9814ca9f5ec3fa6c78ed47cc0bd6d SHA-1: 87a8f0913b8ee61d6c8df385919a720b4e038a9c SHA-256: 0c11f6ffceb04e6feb367d080a4e26a50985cdf1953e16407ce40e6a55a4169c
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains multiple embedded JavaScript streams, several of which were flagged as suspicious and obfuscated. High-severity heuristics like PDF_EVAL and PDF_UNESCAPE indicate the use of JavaScript eval and unescape functions, common in obfuscation techniques. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these obfuscated scripts to likely download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0116_000.js
5ddd81ff837ed47cdeae600499fcb33080a7c1ac480021d0016b252985e30c81
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 116 at offset 0x4BB 43981 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 224 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0116_002.js
70c31255e325c7293ca365a7905a0b77dfd1fa8dbbc95cfcc5106d896c408034
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 116 at offset 0x53A 43989 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 224 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0123_003.js
5219dfa58882a55398403ab90be64f7563631794c8cad33d70ad247053c14d65
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 123 at offset 0x386 136847 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).