PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4a22c14767154b4e

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.2 KB

MD5: 83d40cf663c7c2f554817c774fe546c8 SHA-1: 380b5283f740c4d66e7a97effb4bb1725ae797a0 SHA-256: 4a22c14767154b4ef2d49495d01a0b2ad931a238ce425aa0ba70987ad2c671cb

166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics. The presence of PDF_EVAL and PDF_UNESCAPE suggests the JavaScript is obfuscated and uses eval() and unescape() for execution. This pattern is commonly used to download and execute a second-stage payload. ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082' further confirms its malicious nature.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj111611_000.js` `772da696bdb365f3f1eb4ea6af881baad391be62f3591b19f2f9827fcc4c9b53`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 111611 at offset 0x7D7	479 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `d2588bd0f2de32b24eb7f0e3f64ef58471d50e85d57fb2ccf858cc59290bd85f`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x189	2810 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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