Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19be376e9579c6d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB Created: 2009-06-08 10:44:48 Authoring application: KhqHypSuiGwp (via hxpafWcxQfQVksHPgb)
MD5: c35ad79e45182a114ddf340954a9c30e SHA-1: 6b3ba0b45a7d1de28045fd2879bde1e373022eba SHA-256: 19be376e9579c6d9b785fd7c2c23e2e8c5c6feccbcd9636b049b2275209503c0
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572). Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader. The ML classifier's high confidence score suggests a known exploit pattern. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, contributing to the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572
  • 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.
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape 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_obj0007_000.js
29642b5e3b2b0c7f492763603a1e66828efe319f3c69873d5d4d12ad6791342b
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x36D 13349 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).