Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cc14e3ccdea959d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.5 KB
MD5: 7b5240645dddc14d9960c2db72352419 SHA-1: 7b378d52ce0b486c60de23f7bc157a84a8ff89a2 SHA-256: 6cc14e3ccdea959d675eb4131216b3948868fc7bbc7f1c605bc6897bd373c6c2
238 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 a custom base64 decoding function. This script is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER' and 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristics. The presence of the 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36189' ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The script's primary function appears to be fetching and running additional malicious code from a remote source, likely the benign-looking URL http://www.bitstream.com.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 9

  • 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-36189 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36189
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.bitstream.com
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.6/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0013_000.js
aa37c964964311f70c9e994c95442c9f0a314625c14980cb50805276f51f916f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x10531 27749 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0013_001.js
756ef56a03a49508e7d9c85fe2634ee28367c6b66e42dfa8f0011adfa9d4714d
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x1056D 27757 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
font_00_sfnt_off00000352.bin
a8f4d9b7d604c3c8a0bf3f9a31b9e952d467f98d118fdc784d95d689a14d8a33
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x352 65932 bytes