PDF malware analysis — malicious · 296c6e65c1dbed64

MALICIOUS

PDF

231.8 KB

MD5: ed3faf3daeffeae7ef38e769db21d498 SHA-1: 4df2aaa58e10be93464a8d498c4b7184de77eea2 SHA-256: 296c6e65c1dbed647bab37c04d905cc218fc59530c5c10e4cbe682be3a563d55

316 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript T1559.002 Component Object Model

This PDF sample contains multiple high-severity heuristic firings indicating embedded JavaScript, eval() calls, and rich media content, strongly suggesting malicious intent. The presence of an embedded SWF file and a secondary embedded PDF, both flagged as suspicious, further supports this. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955' confirms its malicious nature. The embedded JavaScript and Flash object likely work in concert to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 9

Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE

A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA

PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
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.
Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED

PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`zVGWPnPsl.swf` `ae13437efad4e3a4f03cb0339d03b7d795966b217d30a540767c4ae26f402285`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x146D	26774 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
`javascript_obj0006_000.js` `15689f302e582c730e2957af9f693527bed5d4b0c0400330afa9ba85ee307ff3`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x13C	12114 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 10 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).
`polyglot_child_pdf_off00030d36.pdf` `1a6680d1fc92463ff3785c6d92ec8a5a6b1798722e1986bd89fadc1455661f33`	polyglot-child-pdf	Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x30D36	37419 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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