PDF malware analysis — malicious · 98f0826b298a009e

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.8 KB

MD5: c8d7be84727903aacc44f70bc350e2df SHA-1: b00d9c7f6f899446880ab712d0e924202cf9b550 SHA-256: 98f0826b298a009e154e3e464bd24c20bf07fb830830ef8f3ee0c32b87d56f7f

134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains heavily obfuscated JavaScript, identified by heuristics as a multi-stage dropper. This script is designed to decode and execute a payload, likely downloading further malicious content. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35902' confirms its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to deliver a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35902 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35902
Obfuscated multi-stage PDF JavaScript dropper high PDF_JS_OBFUSCATED_DROPPER

PDF JavaScript shows 5 independent signals of exploit-kit-style multi-stage obfuscation: annot_subject_stage, hex_codec_loop, hex_dashed_payload, incremental_eval_build, 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.
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)
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` `3cf6a22459cda11e607fc9e0dc0c88d01a8425e26488ff87df38d855ceb4dccf`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 5 at offset 0x148	465 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `be76fe7b8ddad506f4c83f7875e06020c3aa164b0f1eb759ccdb7d74ad48f9a1`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1A60	1628 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`deobfuscated.js` `3522f08f0ccf8d00e4343e168b6b6862e257e50b8a2a20ecb103441b38e3a6fc`	deobfuscated-js	PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass	22317 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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