Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 475646c48053f098…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.8 KB
MD5: e53da981c7360ff937a733d52cd16643 SHA-1: 6ca61f3d74659fcec5a484330a7792b4269bf145 SHA-256: 475646c48053f098e370c755cc83fc3746af739b7b2cac6f24b789a7b1ae6194
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, with high-confidence heuristics indicating the use of eval() and a large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' strongly suggests exploitation of a PDF vulnerability. The ML classifier also flagged this as highly malicious. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these JavaScript capabilities to likely download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
690e40e88eebb5edf1f2a222373d5a6737c1069e7360a204db953ca0b9fbef78
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 426171 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).