Malicious PDF / .VXE — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73647f3d6bcdd68d…

MALICIOUS

PDF / .VXE

66.4 KB Created: ert Authoring application: Adobe (via asd)
MD5: 8d49f7ef40f1d5d09512fb77a3fdee51 SHA-1: 46c71680fa24778574a7ad7d74c58496df1b6e00 SHA-256: 73647f3d6bcdd68d8004c9be45f32e5899352994313c7b5bb822ec89392c98bb
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious. The JavaScript appears to be obfuscated but is designed to execute code, likely downloading a second-stage payload. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-20238 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-20238
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0006_000.js
d5a335151de436278ff28669eb53310c71ef56c6d305c8f6ab2e1a31864b4ff0
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x1063C 220 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
stream_001_off000001b8.bin
8b8dd7bb36910d5d0f5dcde31409e6f0741cb009d1287c2574802a5db4019a4f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1B8 89984 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).