Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8085f20b039582aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.2 KB
MD5: 8d6a3722e459099d166681217bead206 SHA-1: d9d7641226ab21808c45dab136c2e7a3dec1e7a0 SHA-256: 8085f20b039582aaf7fe0bb08a4d890339a47e7eaa3ae57cb2e1bbbd62590361
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with specific heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript. This JavaScript is likely used to exploit a client execution vulnerability and download a secondary payload, a common technique for initial access via spearphishing attachments. No specific URLs or executable content were directly extracted for IOCs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35646 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35646
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objstm_0019_00.bin
729414f6718edf0ec69ca74ac4aadd8cf5d728dc183704dd6bc7f97d97bd8911
pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 19 0 obj (inflated) 270 bytes