Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dca2f896b836177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.9 KB
MD5: 075ee12c6abf5eb918cff87bdd6d4fc1 SHA-1: 7c22855bc2824a1b3a3f8047223fe60c78cf6e9d SHA-256: 5dca2f896b83617797bc0ec963d16e38432d31ba885f1521ea1c6c933c24d409
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics including ML and ClamAV. The JavaScript appears to be obfuscated but is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the use of eval and string concatenation to construct executable code. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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.
  • 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
942e42009bcf676d464b3457e6bee460f69c82bca9d4bb222b03414db649ef55
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x199 17971 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).