PDF malware analysis — malicious · 118b264b0e47cffa

MALICIOUS

PDF

146.9 KB

MD5: 4dedb8778520d2b9ab4216ddb00ba729 SHA-1: fa1ba0d370ef670f91504a803e6f4b590d1c9249 SHA-256: 118b264b0e47cffa79f1454ad54d3b9f5c509512ccbb2c8db6bb784598307bc3

238 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is heavily obfuscated and uses a custom base64 decoding function. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically an exploit targeting PDF vulnerabilities. The JavaScript likely decodes and executes a malicious payload, as suggested by the 'unescape()' call and the exploit cluster heuristics.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 9

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-36189 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36189
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX

Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
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
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.
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://www.bitstream.com
- http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0013_000.js` `fe89eb145a5a716286472b5806517e7443e2a70987a8577377de3ba86cce442c`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x10531	27541 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`javascript_obj0013_001.js` `02dc5980897f3f436fac97d0bb59bf7ce2445f75099b6d8f857b8ded1b46f49e`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x1056D	27549 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`font_00_sfnt_off00000352.bin` `a8f4d9b7d604c3c8a0bf3f9a31b9e952d467f98d118fdc784d95d689a14d8a33`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x352	65932 bytes

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