PDF malware analysis — malicious · 5533e2f1532e5e43

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.7 KB

MD5: fa08c9607734595d2db14d0fd8d403e5 SHA-1: 8dbc14b87f004e8884316071022e45dea61c3362 SHA-256: 5533e2f1532e5e43ab0b181c5c005f6144cc215e52613e012c914eac7b484a7c

196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of embedded JavaScript, including a large comment-padded eval stager and a call to eval() within a decoded stream. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. These factors strongly suggest the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and execute malicious JavaScript, likely to download and run 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0006_000.js` `d7dd06564ecef0b7ff16389e26ec131306883534b59cffa6d890568cd9345560`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143	424985 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).

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