Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49aec1f5d41131f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.1 KB
MD5: 6586bb8f7a37747a925de090aa4acad6 SHA-1: 3cad2ce7064216f8c1a06a29464f9530bc2e877e SHA-256: 49aec1f5d41131f42ecf0f691f8fad24d8115bf99950a96c3d3264ffbf62a050
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains obfuscated JavaScript, identified by the 'PDF_JS_OBFUSCATED_DROPPER' heuristic. This script is designed to act as a dropper, likely downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7212069-0' further confirms its malicious nature as a dropper. No specific malware family could be confidently identified.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7212069-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7212069-0
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0005_000.js
a3319192cac6d4dc4eeb6af2d736b0ffec979b23116a003bc7c23382761c32a5
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 5 at offset 0x148 733 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
628f49565f8b025db41b4e57e30e9712e1c58dbe456374b8b7b86aa8c7dd94d2
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1B64 12717 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
0b274fcd89467e2fa6b2134fec04f2791ef3e6f2219f85755f0c47bdb2f823dc
deobfuscated-js PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass 110866 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).