Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 844e551546eb03ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.3 KB
MD5: d42563fe463821c857554a65f427f75a SHA-1: 7cffce85d3a37e575873ce51ad00d0dc6366cae1 SHA-256: 844e551546eb03aed8665468f351ab5ae8d1821383696acdd11137b1309a14b5
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload. Heuristics and ClamAV detection confirm the malicious nature of the PDF, specifically identifying it as an exploit targeting PDF vulnerabilities. The JavaScript attempts to decode and execute content, likely a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
af908280b8833ba850b6534a9fac95b6e1187c78383014337598d019925dda03
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0xA88 333 bytes
stream_000_off00000152.bin
d497e30ba33001b00973060b66c59592c938c554544c63b94a13f290f1441fde
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x152 13100 bytes