Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 663729cfacb2bc8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.1 KB
MD5: 9fd523d28ce3dda94f65a9e06b3de3d9 SHA-1: 5effed6acc992bae52a07e3b9c09bb5df0d1c54f SHA-256: 663729cfacb2bc8fe41f505a50b942bac04f4c9328da7c7f3e3b859a0038e89d
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is heavily obfuscated and utilizes eval() calls, indicating an attempt to hide malicious functionality. Heuristics and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this is an exploit attempting to download and execute a secondary payload. The specific JavaScript code is too obfuscated to determine the exact download URL or persistence mechanism.

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-2056 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-2056
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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_obj0002_000.js
09b72c595c4d8450a94122687f230ec3aa5b16ad56ccd67a04cf505d23b82b60
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 2 at offset 0x5B 3516 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 10 long base64-like blob(s).