Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9147ca93f2acd790…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.1 KB First seen: 2026-05-10
MD5: 2b0ec524d652f9383dd2c36131da77ee SHA-1: 9bce4a193ea5d18f5f12353c5a5c6fa2d03d486c SHA-256: 9147ca93f2acd790d58412f913d8cbdafae23753a4ce740b2653c15e50220e94
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. The presence of a PDF_UNESCAPE call suggests the JavaScript may be obfuscated. The script is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader to execute arbitrary code. No document body text was available for further analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

Heuristics 4

  • JavaScript action low 2 related findings PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
    Matched line in script
    var a=unescape(a);
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000044f.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x44F 456 bytes
SHA-256: 1567d77487352ae7c01132ddfce87a03a1215d8dfe4b2823f6f8c2743c62aff2