Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57f7a7eb0178d5a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.3 KB
MD5: fa96720f2b528447d8dce8e726a2bc59 SHA-1: 19d41ac43ddd337bc63259e93f237d2d91f925d3 SHA-256: 57f7a7eb0178d5a1ca7ced19e710f00e5a10f58603e038d4afa867df738306e0
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121. Static analysis identified embedded JavaScript, indicating an attempt to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for executing a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
cb5e7e96cd974bae91d31fbf3c49ff25cb007f72ab7fc9a26512bfda488ebbb0
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0xA86 318 bytes