Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cf4390ed98459df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 997 Authoring application: 5187
MD5: dbd719dbbaf39b4d5bba55200221c18b SHA-1: 9292c2d4d65b77f9baa20ec81e34d013eb74d2cc SHA-256: 3cf4390ed98459dfb047ad7b256d848629bd1f7e5c76f6eb197dbb0ae896d6aa
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014 and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. Static triage indicated suspicious extracted artifacts including obfuscated JavaScript. The embedded JavaScript stream is likely responsible for executing the exploit and delivering a second-stage payload.

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
9df32cb3205111958fc333a4015c41ff29f593f214d62ea069ca5f80f2ce4ba5
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 5237 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).