PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8e4d34e432906ab9

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB

MD5: 6cd0ab73a3b7816cec1eb17e8d673321 SHA-1: 16d52a1fe57c9193ef6041e393be7558e3211894 SHA-256: 8e4d34e432906ab932f322909bf3f3506f23bd86dd3ffb343472bce7708910d2

166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript/TypeScript

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is heavily obfuscated using eval() and unescape() functions. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082' strongly suggests this is a malicious PDF exploiting a known vulnerability. The JavaScript is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the obfuscated code and the heuristic firings. The exact payload and download URL could not be definitively reconstructed due to the heavy obfuscation.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
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.
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj111611_000.js` `772da696bdb365f3f1eb4ea6af881baad391be62f3591b19f2f9827fcc4c9b53`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 111611 at offset 0x7E8	479 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `d459d2626ad458a1e8abf7705a7c8df8552990969cd21e57dbc725d1fa10d8ce`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x189	2834 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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