Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ab3eebc87085df5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 4885-01-01 Authoring application: 6755
MD5: fbd296d8353581eb535dd16e7386ba8b SHA-1: e0a5cfb5bd06b2a1e658edf0fea1058925491873 SHA-256: 8ab3eebc87085df5831fb092cb89acf25937dc08395aacc7615b29cc73021892
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 (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014) and a machine learning classifier. Static analysis detected embedded JavaScript, indicating an attempt to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader. The JavaScript is obfuscated, suggesting it likely downloads and executes 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
85607fd48ec7774e07639449914182196dbd5571780e04c85f156a1cfce8cc7a
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4799 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).