PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8c18fe0d75290003

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.3 KB

MD5: f44f67b50bf8ec869162f331c7b85bc6 SHA-1: 3cacb9613918f28cd8366f72326764f96f58eec1 SHA-256: 8c18fe0d752900038d4fb898d5463ab602f11241fe3cbe45bf081a8a555c2076

96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains obfuscated JavaScript, flagged as a high-confidence dropper. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristic and the presence of deobfuscated JavaScript files. The attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious PDF that then initiates the download of further malicious content.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

Obfuscated multi-stage PDF JavaScript dropper high PDF_JS_OBFUSCATED_DROPPER

PDF JavaScript shows 3 independent signals of exploit-kit-style multi-stage obfuscation: annot_subject_stage, hex_dashed_payload, repeated_pluginschk. This is strongly consistent with pre-2011 Adobe Reader PDF droppers — OpenAction JS reads encoded data from annotation subjects, decodes it through one or more hex / base-N loops, and invokes eval indirectly (method name built one character at a time). The actual CVE is hidden in the final decoded layer and is not visible via static analysis.
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.
syncAnnotScan annotation-staging primitive low PDF_FOXIT_SYNCANNOTSCAN

PDF JavaScript calls syncAnnotScan() — a no-op annotation-enumeration primitive used by exploit-kit JavaScript to stage payload reads from annotation /Subject fields before eval(). Not a vulnerable sink itself; rarely seen in legitimate PDFs. (matched in decompressed stream)
Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0005_000.js` `a3319192cac6d4dc4eeb6af2d736b0ffec979b23116a003bc7c23382761c32a5`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 5 at offset 0x148	733 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `d37ada41b05fa9dda2871c3f0104475a998b58293f87dd1a92ed078bd980f723`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1A1A	12255 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`deobfuscated.js` `27b5a4ac50a38d7f43208957c86f5a24bcb67ea1947d9b230e7682f4dbf4549b`	deobfuscated-js	PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass	102193 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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