Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22a1798e33fbd9a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.5 KB Authoring application: Jgaxivakafowizasi (via 4973eUohosicilab)
MD5: c62125e1a5165bee7519f00472bcffce SHA-1: 5691bfd8d83a8e42108ded0b29acc4394e7949f1 SHA-256: 22a1798e33fbd9a5b3e1fe1b4e3e74b87be359b65d8423f598b6b6e2f3c80b28
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for obfuscated objects and an ML classifier. The presence of embedded JavaScript, indicated by PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS firings, suggests an attempt to execute arbitrary code. While the document body is unreadable, the JavaScript stream is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 3

  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0011_000.js
c35f939b8b08b4458e4f2307d4bfd0afc23546c955e11c1da88e87302e40c9b0
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 11 at offset 0x1358 3029 bytes