Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e653246bd67a985…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.7 KB
MD5: 5dc1f13845ee1b5c83624fd4f83b46e9 SHA-1: 47e0bb7a78d64916a9a9a0b5791d047920358ee6 SHA-256: 7e653246bd67a985526f749ca696da11787283af55c064f0c0d05eef9cdfce33
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is heavily obfuscated and uses `eval()` and `fromCharCode` functions. Heuristics indicate a large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager, suggesting it's designed to deobfuscate and execute malicious code. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' strongly suggests this is a known exploit. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging a PDF vulnerability to run this script, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager high PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL
    PDF JavaScript contains a very large stream padded with long random-looking block comments around String.fromCharCode and eval. This is an exploit-kit obfuscation shape used to bury a decoder and recovered stage inside noise, not normal PDF form automation.
  • 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.
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0006_000.js
d1ac62a12589b89dbddcaf96fb10532372ea63ba4a6eab3143814d20ab3aa84f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 628288 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 42 long base64-like blob(s).