Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2130a82d47ed5107…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.5 KB Created: 2007-12-35 21:45:26 Authoring application: Adobe
MD5: a10267a20c20fd291ca97729cfcd6765 SHA-1: 4c8cc4f0ccb1be13fdb6de2e02e4e5883bae5eb1 SHA-256: 2130a82d47ed51073c7b38a075b3012af7ca378972859d139365c1239cda8abe
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript streams, with one stream exhibiting an eval() call, indicating code execution. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of obfuscated JavaScript suggests the intent is to download and execute a secondary payload. While specific IOCs like URLs or hashes are not directly extracted, the embedded JavaScript files themselves are treated as IOCs due to their suspicious nature and obfuscation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0032_000.js
114922f79b1563ea5458b86f22a6fd02373c98b9bbf2342010bae74cb998e470
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 32 at offset 0x42E 1666537 bytes
javascript_obj0034_001.js
d72c9fb29c217a430981a605abd8d054df1ffd27591a769ba52c85a4a0223f9e
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 34 at offset 0x3EF2 1028 bytes
javascript_obj0036_002.js
26eb0b0696a56f8a17c2140d898067edf9d0afda49bc9f7ba1d5047d30ded466
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 36 at offset 0x80 1354 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).