PDF malware analysis — malicious · 11ee33c85cfcf91d

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB

MD5: 95942bd0e77314467d7f476a7c545779 SHA-1: f0d73875066283a6ad2d3df1b6d23b80215c96f5 SHA-256: 11ee33c85cfcf91dfb18e973d8a3f01bd7651965ac49b8939ac0348237aa252b

204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and utilizes various decoding filters (ASCIIHexDecode, ASCII85Decode) commonly associated with exploit delivery. Heuristics indicate a PDF JavaScript exploit cluster, and ML classifiers strongly flag it as malicious. ClamAV also identifies it as a known PDF exploit. The presence of JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute code, likely for downloading and running a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

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-36178 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36178
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.
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. (matched inside decoded stream)
ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85

ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
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.

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