Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a97b16dd0aac6d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.4 KB First seen: 2026-05-10
MD5: 20003e76bce250e0302a818e3f446fcf SHA-1: 17b882f74fee42aa906858059485e0fac6880d05 SHA-256: 9a97b16dd0aac6d882c90d3f6a79cab3f6b856229bf2a89e714b76091b440c61
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains JavaScript actions and uses ASCIIHexDecode filters, indicating an attempt to obfuscate malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. While no specific IOCs were extracted, the combination of PDF-specific obfuscation techniques and JavaScript execution points to a likely exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 3

  • JavaScript action low 1 related finding PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • PDF JavaScript rebuilds a builtin via replace() to run a char-code array critical PDF_JS_REPLACE_OBFUSCATED_CHARCODE_BUILDER
    Decoded PDF JavaScript resolves a String builtin from a junked literal — e.g. String['eQvoaol3'.replace(/[3oQS5]/g,'')] yielding fromCharCode/eval — and feeds a large numeric char-code array through it to rebuild and execute the next stage. Dynamically reconstructing a builtin name by stripping junk characters has no benign purpose; paired with the char-code payload array it is an unambiguous obfuscated-JavaScript exploit dropper.
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes