Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77d0e0519f33cda5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2009-05-01 21:21:45 Authoring application: tvEeSFCPx (via NeTSnrx)
MD5: 93b4abf0cfaca3dda86e10f80e20d219 SHA-1: bda40e7528e4441112efc2ac7d7abd1fa872572d SHA-256: 77d0e0519f33cda5747829d3a348234f8c439bcc90a3108d5d2405630981cbda
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains heavily obfuscated JavaScript that utilizes eval() and unescape() functions, indicative of exploit code. The ML classifier strongly flags this as malicious. The JavaScript's primary function appears to be downloading and executing a secondary payload, though the exact URL is obfuscated within the script's string concatenation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
  • 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_obj0007_000.js
de384e3f639a675dbac3ec97480ed540e599788ab0d17ffcfdc6bc52fdea9ba3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x215 35126 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0007_001.js
607764f37e171ef635f01335393f0f09366fd95ee020c009b0f055b7c407e94f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x215 35039 bytes