Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38a4f1cd391fdfd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.1 KB First seen: 2026-05-10
MD5: 186c7159132ba36ce8712535054ca5e5 SHA-1: 663e94afd552a4b1d8e20da511d7eac28ed71255 SHA-256: 38a4f1cd391fdfd5e1a34e5189add4f49a788988f15bc1ab54fea26ec5281d8a
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics. The presence of a high-severity PDF_EVAL heuristic firing suggests that the JavaScript code is being executed, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded artifact objstm_0023_00.bin is also noted. No specific malware family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

Heuristics 4

  • JavaScript action low 2 related findings PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
    Matched line in script
    /*fGhkjkDFhkhsfd <FDSJHFhkjkjSDFkj> FDKLFJHklfkldshfSLDf*/ eval(hvkoa6); /*fGhkjkDFhkhsfd <FDSJHFhkjkjSDFkj> FDKLFJHklfkldshfSLDf*/
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objstm_0023_00.bin pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 23 0 obj (inflated) 584 bytes
SHA-256: 300d74c66317ce9ce00ad56c1748d8feef70b4df17cad89868745a6d3d469546

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