Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 580f44f8f6ea5bc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.8 KB
MD5: 0f5e08291bfe55016d013762f9a5cb7f SHA-1: 85c5db664822d1a8026d26afd91906d835922eed SHA-256: 580f44f8f6ea5bc1c5965ac31a7cba349a2e92dcfbb38e72d1c1abbcfab97bfc
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, including a heavily obfuscated 'eval' stager within a large comment. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' further confirms its malicious nature. The obfuscated nature of the script prevents a more detailed analysis of its specific actions or IOCs beyond the ClamAV signature.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0006_000.js
4f80e13272b9183a2b6da4993d159c95b833b3a96cef0fbdfbddb09d31c6930e
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 627260 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).