PDF malware analysis — malicious · 769bcb9d43d652a1

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.5 KB

MD5: c5a78973295fed89d54f69453affdac5 SHA-1: fdee9a53bab6043fe6aa629d0583f808bdec7cb7 SHA-256: 769bcb9d43d652a1e0d11f8bf29d29a1aa660989b563b805bad6f06566bf36c7

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 utilizes a custom base64 decoding function. This script is heavily obfuscated and appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of PDF_JAVASCRIPT, PDF_JS, PDF_UNESCAPE, and PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER heuristics, along with ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36189, strongly indicates malicious exploitation. The embedded URL http://www.bitstream.com is the most likely indicator for the next stage of the attack.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0013_000.js` `774d05c948cb72aea00170d0d2cf35b7abe09c5d039fc5204ceab48c22beb852`	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` `66ffc822c32d44d30fe5cacf811302671569a51a74e1efebdad5ef95e6d27c33`	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

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