Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e153745e56162a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.2 KB Created: 2009-06-01 00:28:43 Authoring application: SDjyfnDgkpjVrnW (via zPhjxMntEDMeBNCIDdQ)
MD5: 0e600d80e22e1ffb16aebad96ae7b3a3 SHA-1: e2ae2898254e813abfc3a57a12d4af7204c8c362 SHA-256: 0e153745e56162a5f954b56d54456bf16cf9d183b06b553c5c7c180829a11c52
176 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 that is heavily obfuscated, but heuristic analysis indicates it is part of an exploit cluster. The script likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, as suggested by the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' firings. The presence of JavaScript and exploit indicators points towards a malicious document, commonly delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572
  • 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.
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.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.
  • 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
javascript_obj0007_000.js
3b130840dcaa85204fe1f73be19472171ce5867489de60d6923a55aff70b74b8
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x3F2 7665 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).