PDF malware analysis — malicious · 6c93f885fb070c82

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB

MD5: 9ebddfc2c6b17c9479f328c26c658756 SHA-1: e51beb58a66ebf377e3cff61f49a34c0944aa9dd SHA-256: 6c93f885fb070c82d55aba8518de609ad3f3ab562e56803e178b1641eb4c1379

268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF sample contains embedded JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2008-2992 vulnerability via a util.printf call. This JavaScript is obfuscated and likely intended to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

util.printf — CVE-2008-2992 critical CVE exact CVE_2008_2992

PDF JavaScript calls util.printf() — CVE-2008-2992 is a stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by a long format-specifier argument. Widely exploited in the wild after disclosure. (matched in decompressed stream)
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: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0006_000.js` `12999978486fc5ecefc4f796e8c8beb9d6962dc680d33d580331b2f69fc2a90a`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x1A1	4814 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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