Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1404856b9832b455…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.3 KB
MD5: 7568bf6fa27f63ff659f351c0de74cea SHA-1: 8992c10a1bb06de7e2fa1bc0312b7bfd208fffbf SHA-256: 1404856b9832b455dc7c08363f42cbc027b43b3b3c40644a32fb343f802b1ca8
148 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 utilizes an eval() call, a common technique for obfuscating malicious code. This JavaScript is likely designed to exploit a known PDF vulnerability for client execution and subsequently download a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified, and no malicious URLs or hashes were directly extracted from the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objstm_0024_00.bin
5f569916c5698ebce08f071fec51ba979cb8e421212e70966e7b3180e6b4d933
pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 24 0 obj (inflated) 385 bytes