Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62e8b4f1e7faa8a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

30.7 KB Created: 2009-05-01 21:21:45 Authoring application: ghjkSFghjkCPx (via afdsdgf)
MD5: 18205ea5a990a07914edc3c5feae464f SHA-1: b1ec8347db77f181a0b06ef3128fee1756917dd9 SHA-256: 62e8b4f1e7faa8a3160cae3f53a40c1b960974b3c28f4894893d09b8b319e0dc
268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious and part of an exploit cluster. The JavaScript is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to execute arbitrary code, likely downloading and running a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35587' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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-35587 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35587
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
e85b8ad8af61c4aa9a31e7382f602c5970e8412dfcdcb921dbe5576d23ecbf50
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x21C 30238 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35587
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 6 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0007_001.js
dd0dd775bb18f40e0d8b52b62a4b15828043372b8461c6301a6c2c7e18de1308
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x21C 29155 bytes