Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1747d9ce5a5042fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.3 KB
MD5: 915d7782dba7d6b835a546f3d95dabaf SHA-1: 3d2bb2d79cbbaa0af2bd0dfc47ddd3fc7a545c75 SHA-256: 1747d9ce5a5042fc808e041ef12566b3f69449d7c872bbbc8668053dd43cc70d
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript that is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The JavaScript's obfuscation and its presence within a PDF strongly suggest an attempt to exploit a vulnerability for initial execution, followed by a download and execution phase.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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
0e495f894cd5e40148b223e15b97fd86a30eaae91b7cf75a4fb8c16a9ccca5f5
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x19C 13979 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).