PDF malware analysis — malicious · 98ef97bd66c910cb

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.4 KB Created: 2010-12-07 23:34:30 +02:00 Authoring application: Debt Consolidation Loan (via mPDF 5.0)

MD5: d9e13b8cc9ffa5fef13ef988cc76a1cf SHA-1: cb2a252abfc9a5cb22362710d97869ad71219790 SHA-256: 98ef97bd66c910cbaa440aa7f18cc854c03683ed35134e01a2c34916522f393f

106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT, PDF_JS, and PDF_UNESCAPE. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence. The extracted JavaScript files, javascript_obj0020_000.js and javascript_obj0020_001.js, are likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing content.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 4

unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0020_000.js` `357d06d70777f397a54fd04180a5ee36f36a8ec5c7cbbafdfab41f20901b25ac`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 20 at offset 0x6195	136 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 hex-escaped blob(s).
`javascript_obj0020_001.js` `607a0753f2d28ea7a383d2e729ee9a1eeb69db22eafb74fa3e1d444ae047c123`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 20 at offset 0x6195	134 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 hex-escaped blob(s).

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