Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b384c69d009b6c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.4 KB Created: 2010-06-05 11:00:11 Authoring application: ucIOUDbibaMdIdEoa (via AmmEmvpVzivEgLZbvULkOC)
MD5: e9edff77fe298a47e4be2331bf2ad77e SHA-1: 281cca31d06dce5d7cb64e61acbb8ef0047cb9cd SHA-256: 6b384c69d009b6c1dc143f443f270fa67ee886c7be4bfbdb63129decd2abdea8
176 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 obfuscated JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. The JavaScript is designed to exploit a known PDF vulnerability, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572' further supports this assessment.

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_obj0007_000.js
228ecbfeb36d18c23c58044ad78337247e55ee7ff1aa330d981e90449f9701a1
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x4C1 7586 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).