Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45bd11ba35259f04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 2564-01-01 Authoring application: 2681
MD5: d6e3022bccf68f3f030da31b3e7b22d3 SHA-1: 80117222c1b405e51111d62f4bda388d6f8f00c2 SHA-256: 45bd11ba35259f045f02eb9bb548e4798ccdea1ba47c6e5d60deef9a3dc01eee
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014 and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Embedded JavaScript streams were detected, suggesting an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader. The ML classifier's high confidence and the specific ClamAV detection point towards a known exploit, likely delivered via a spearphishing attachment.

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
799a1800c13abbdadb57307d6774b882eb1e6b903d40c9f1352bf37c4efa9375
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4791 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).