Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6030bc14865b727b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

8.9 KB Created: 2009-08-10 00:30:12 Authoring application: KENehHirHvbcA (via fFdsfiHcpWLENR)
MD5: b814b78a1f4b26148b2ca4c37f47a6f1 SHA-1: 1e0a3f0ecba543660d98035081298fd261070020 SHA-256: 6030bc14865b727b8f03aef6637d7a6653ea41cfe6dab952b46934d295a4fe99
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is heavily obfuscated. Heuristics indicate this JavaScript is likely an exploit attempting to download and execute a secondary payload. ClamAV detection confirms this as a malicious PDF exploit. The specific exploit and payload are not fully discernible due to obfuscation, hence the 'unknown family' classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572
  • 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.
  • 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_obj0009_000.js
56b03f021b6e2c02eda38a6045f23ed8615942ff55378e3342349d5823858b73
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 9 at offset 0x68E 6636 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).