PDF malware analysis — malicious · 17adc9334b013a22

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.2 KB

MD5: af720d6fdc6370fc879dcc9869c94a32 SHA-1: 89de90411925d94a8324df7d92d87141fc239e42 SHA-256: 17adc9334b013a2264ac436825e178bc302e2f856f64a7f5446c2baef119f5b7

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 utilizes a custom base64 decoding function. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from a remote URL. The presence of PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER and PDF_UNESCAPE heuristics, along with ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36189, strongly indicates an exploit attempt. The embedded URL http://www.bitstream.com is likely the source of the payload.

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` `6edc94ff546625298539c1bf34da0f1c543a3668a1e236256780e15a7526c73f`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x10531	27637 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`javascript_obj0013_001.js` `8370d0b1f585bff62beaa2a5b54d25b7af39b725e846ecd80fd794d55349eaa7`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x1056D	27645 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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