Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f37b576d9e751e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.4 KB
MD5: f19ff0dce110dbb02cb053ac772ce531 SHA-1: 7b9fd109557a241935b46c83a13f867ee2eff507 SHA-256: 3f37b576d9e751e2f972c90b35af34eee2f530fd11fb8bf20934068b76a88536
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086) and a machine learning classifier. Static analysis revealed embedded JavaScript, including a large comment-padded eval stager, indicating an attempt to obfuscate malicious code execution. The JavaScript likely serves to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0006_000.js
273b77474d8ae8348e9428e9af80fd64c54095225b48357dbd5d8895feca1d28
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 626368 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).