PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3556dec18c8657d7

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.6 KB

MD5: 4de0e434263a885c12721f4a2c93d7c2 SHA-1: 0c00313d10b630ff54e07cf79ecb7f59b3b0843e SHA-256: 3556dec18c8657d7020a7b705b2594d277bd2f9f6d350346d831ec905bdfee17

166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, including a heavily obfuscated 'eval' stager within a large comment. This stager is designed to decode and execute arbitrary code. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' and the heuristic firings for JavaScript execution and obfuscation strongly indicate that this PDF is a dropper or exploit loader. The primary function appears to be the execution of the embedded JavaScript, which likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
Large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager high PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL

PDF JavaScript contains a very large stream padded with long random-looking block comments around String.fromCharCode and eval. This is an exploit-kit obfuscation shape used to bury a decoder and recovered stage inside noise, not normal PDF form automation.
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. (matched inside decoded stream)
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_obj0006_000.js` `05bbb13e1ba567cc6cd78b63e2435c34e4ffc958852b5210281baf8f298f0453`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143	626633 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 42 long base64-like blob(s).

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