PDF malware analysis — malicious · 919e365c7fe94e91

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.4 KB

MD5: d44e47bca2855846f55ddaf50f5bab7a SHA-1: eb7eea498e68c3920d151b935c8a727c3fd492ba SHA-256: 919e365c7fe94e91574ab892cbef5bcc7f82a42332a0611735446f4d7c398c7a

96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains obfuscated JavaScript, identified by the PDF_JS_OBFUSCATED_DROPPER heuristic. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the deobfuscated.js and legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js artifacts. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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` `1f293955aebcc3e2becc92a929142e3cdbfdb64963dfa357383525cc1dbeaa9d`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1A47	12519 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` `4d4c90bfc4bc890da9cdc63b83c82f412648f65e31b9d476a410e4a3262da8ee`	deobfuscated-js	PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass	61348 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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