Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ca2fc2b35b9dcce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

408.9 KB
MD5: 10a0c3dcf73f9cba4f8a76f26144978b SHA-1: 011b22f437d5b6e035b486feb750ce5b543cc6f2 SHA-256: 9ca2fc2b35b9dcce4f3f0cb643864dc5d113997cfcd6393c36cd392987896a84
250 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF contains embedded JavaScript, as indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT, PDF_JS, and PDF_EVAL. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identifying it as a dropper. The presence of a secondary embedded PDF with similar suspicious findings further supports this. The primary function appears to be the execution of obfuscated JavaScript, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 9

  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7286553-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7286553-0
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0052_000.js
45fea71ee6347153ec3719ebc3910509cd6fa568f263c29e7474c694308f5c7d		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 52 at offset 0x3F4E 301 bytes
javascript_obj0059_001.js
480b0613f4e3c93c5538766bc6ad095eead1a5b8229e2dff8b199fe31ca49d57		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 59 at offset 0x6483 2611 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).
stream_005_off00000b74.bin
e4217c167299ac63f64b8b7e903cc0196f0828693d273431b8b793a12ed0fed3		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB74 1000 bytes
objstm_0053_00.bin
f9797d0fa28384c30d8bf1da89163104ce539753e417fa1f9c5fd135d1eceb39		 pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 53 0 obj (inflated) 50 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off0005f808.pdf
37d933ad18da515523d7d58fee6a79df36ff774c79d98e945313faee99b66a29		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x5F808 27574 bytes

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