PDF malware analysis — malicious · 28f8cb3ae0561136

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.5 KB

MD5: 4294e9f32493b44778669f59c20baf30 SHA-1: 78e6e23d3844f73390c10417c568c335793599ef SHA-256: 28f8cb3ae05611368a6f0ce230994b188bfea9b4bc94b038ee9023176cf9fba2

126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is obfuscated and uses `eval()` to execute. This JavaScript is likely responsible for exploiting a vulnerability within the PDF reader to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94' further supports this assessment.

Heuristics 6

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
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.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0076_000.js` `c28effae366bd4b2a63fe29aea090a07947ae4e73aa9efc1cf87e16e006e7288`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x38AB	144 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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