Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92bd45156c92900e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 9622-01-01 Authoring application: 9249
MD5: 23d73d7853abdc396910c7b3315fe33c SHA-1: e5f59d50c3dc490bff93077fe880aac3043560ef SHA-256: 92bd45156c92900e4ec9b27fea61066d10efb4b772249f132cceed8655abdcbf
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014. Static analysis revealed embedded JavaScript, indicated by PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics, and a suspicious extracted JavaScript file. This suggests the PDF is designed to execute malicious code, likely exploiting a vulnerability to achieve this.

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
923bff4ceaa27fc98b2e8b10401102d2aa2ea44359a798f390235ee445231af4
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4798 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).