Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5caf0ef13347d9bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.3 KB
MD5: 524d273082412860ca543d79ca5afd18 SHA-1: ab76b5188183f74c46f7310561bde415b8582c6d SHA-256: 5caf0ef13347d9bf5f0c0a458b16faba32f33f47e86f1da451635916962075bd
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. The JavaScript code appears to be obfuscated but is designed to execute a command based on the PDF's title property. This strongly suggests the PDF is intended to exploit a vulnerability and download a secondary payload, consistent with common malware delivery techniques.

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
73b7dc0c739efabfe9a9cd10ee7733944625781e98cc30e2218996df800712b3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0xA81 340 bytes