Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82c776a21323e465…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 6325-01-01 Authoring application: 595
MD5: ee6b46e8e4c2ddd06529e4b30fd20138 SHA-1: 70ffdcd99f18d9f6d030d41d30a1e908c25f8b2b SHA-256: 82c776a21323e465f54acda90b0beee55a1980c90d7fd3201bf9972f1bd88922
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. Heuristics indicate the presence of JavaScript, which is likely used to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader. The extracted JavaScript file, 'javascript_obj0013_001.js', shows signs of obfuscation and hex escape sequences, suggesting it's designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
e56488e760b56fe3d8ada27777d9f7ca7f0a4f06728ff9b6a8f946f01a907016
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4797 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).