Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12dce89d2d84ac5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.9 KB
MD5: 77efe47fa06e74132f639df392bc4ad3 SHA-1: fc9c29ae2610389590e1e222ab1105a5ca39f15d SHA-256: 12dce89d2d84ac5daa42d6ea1a16ae7514de87b669c49b535cfa383605f55819
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, identified by multiple heuristics and flagged as malicious by ML and ClamAV. The JavaScript code appears to be obfuscated and attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload. The primary IOC is the embedded JavaScript file itself.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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.
  • 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_obj0006_000.js
c423484fe6edbe89a2114bab78d4abe32a99e8768b95dbd985fff82ed43af83b
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x19C 17113 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).