PDF malware analysis — malicious · 499a3b05dd87d589

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.1 KB

MD5: e94799d456078489c5e8ec77955d8d60 SHA-1: 364aea8fc0ae982f1072b95db96dab51eb155b70 SHA-256: 499a3b05dd87d58971d4baba9e709478da8e9e5c4d60727acaaaf79ae624189a

96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains obfuscated JavaScript, identified as a multi-stage dropper. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_JS_OBFUSCATED_DROPPER' heuristic. The presence of multiple deobfuscated JavaScript files further supports this analysis. The exact nature of the second-stage payload could not be determined due to the obfuscation, but the overall pattern suggests a malicious downloader.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

Obfuscated multi-stage PDF JavaScript dropper high PDF_JS_OBFUSCATED_DROPPER

PDF JavaScript shows 3 independent signals of exploit-kit-style multi-stage obfuscation: annot_subject_stage, hex_dashed_payload, repeated_pluginschk. This is strongly consistent with pre-2011 Adobe Reader PDF droppers — OpenAction JS reads encoded data from annotation subjects, decodes it through one or more hex / base-N loops, and invokes eval indirectly (method name built one character at a time). The actual CVE is hidden in the final decoded layer and is not visible via static analysis.
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.
syncAnnotScan annotation-staging primitive low PDF_FOXIT_SYNCANNOTSCAN

PDF JavaScript calls syncAnnotScan() — a no-op annotation-enumeration primitive used by exploit-kit JavaScript to stage payload reads from annotation /Subject fields before eval(). Not a vulnerable sink itself; rarely seen in legitimate PDFs. (matched in decompressed 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0005_000.js` `a3319192cac6d4dc4eeb6af2d736b0ffec979b23116a003bc7c23382761c32a5`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 5 at offset 0x148	733 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `04b8ff6f1f0364e17376eeeaf4b6b232c5aa3e27da1fdbfe2e7ca367bb6c67a6`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1B67	12567 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`deobfuscated.js` `ce8bb4e88bcf1477a4adfea3d129c646c7d43dd0d9570f9c39fe7efe4aa9cc91`	deobfuscated-js	PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass	63641 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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