Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 829af93193c975d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 6242-01-01 Authoring application: 5567
MD5: f66e6a4d9da572270fb6b4fb3f640cc3 SHA-1: 5176d42a60151e367761ee3b5e9a2c394288321c SHA-256: 829af93193c975d23cea450407547748bf37c4df8434aecdfd56106d305a36cc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit PDF reader vulnerabilities or download further malicious content. The presence of obfuscated JavaScript and a suspicious extracted file named 'javascript_obj0013_001.js' strongly suggests an exploit attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0013_001.js
eda6093e3cb21d08ea665327bf4c727bea100b4474c024ad99abbd7a6519b27c
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4786 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 10 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long hex-escaped blob(s).