Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f4258bed609ea02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.4 KB
MD5: b417b6d8e4332270a4084c90e1341a9e SHA-1: 40e58e3040c03eec6c11cffec298e8d8500ccf13 SHA-256: 6f4258bed609ea029cf173b67b90db4b144172e32a7317a56e3545714d02de15
146 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 obfuscated but appears to decode and execute a payload. The critical ClamAV detection and high-severity heuristics indicate exploitation of a known PDF vulnerability. The JavaScript attempts to reconstruct a string which is then evaluated, likely to download and run a secondary malicious file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
  • PDF metadata JavaScript eval stager high PDF_METADATA_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF JavaScript reads document metadata fields such as title, subject, or producer, decodes character data with parseInt/String.fromCharCode style helpers, and evals the recovered stage. This is a high-signal exploit-kit staging pattern.
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0076_000.js
930a726a00c91df91d888b76659abe9244ff46cd97aa424bc677096cf710cc65
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x2F7A 331 bytes