Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 312441697302c9c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 6711-01-01 Authoring application: 1844
MD5: 9c8d07d9fa1e40d2f82e34af702432eb SHA-1: 0bff99cba5dbf141592b090d421c8896c90b0717 SHA-256: 312441697302c9c6e1a936823505b8aa8166c71b176b1026249bfe4aa0443432
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit PDF reader vulnerabilities or download secondary payloads. The ML classifier's high confidence score and the specific ClamAV signature indicate a known exploit pattern. No document body text was available for analysis, but the presence of JavaScript and the exploit signature strongly suggest an attempt to compromise the user's system.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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_obj0013_001.js
ad67ba85a67ffc7deab2ce83bf5c32cc6b10a1f78e6cc8aa2858d698cac99870
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4772 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 hex-escaped blob(s).