Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17cd8be609570f2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.9 KB
MD5: 970e60f2496805bdbdc753e88b57f664 SHA-1: 3a43882456e1719c9f05a40e1b78858a9e07dec4 SHA-256: 17cd8be609570f2e074d2399d948146a0d489d124b6c30e9090aad637681b6a2
108 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, flagged by multiple heuristics including ML and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The JavaScript code appears to be obfuscated but is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'unescape' and 'eval' functions and the construction of a URL from various string parts. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
6cf863415cfa01dfd93fc1f3ae5c71176e691b2932b78049c93af1234ea15a80
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x19D 17927 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).