PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9d9978c6be18f632

MALICIOUS

PDF

177.2 KB

MD5: c8cbd69cbabf6aa98a479daf2a248fe6 SHA-1: 72e487cc042851dd3011d80fe5f3c9229025abbf SHA-256: 9d9978c6be18f63225fe9b4b68757252593047b169bab0fd8e9e4c751e6ba710

286 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a Flash object, as indicated by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT, PDF_JS, and PDF_RICHMEDIA heuristics. The critical PDF_EVAL and POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE firings, along with ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955), confirm the malicious nature. The embedded artifacts, including a JavaScript file and a SWF file, suggest a multi-stage attack designed to download and execute additional payloads.

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.Exploit.Agent-35955 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA

PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (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.
Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED

PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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
`zVGWPnPsl.swf` `ae13437efad4e3a4f03cb0339d03b7d795966b217d30a540767c4ae26f402285`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x146D	26774 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
`javascript_obj0006_000.js` `178018cb8a7a5e2c6c4ee6e6d6ef777b6766d83315773fb58538dafb6c0a9e0a`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x13E	12119 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 base64-like blob(s).
`polyglot_child_pdf_off00023271.pdf` `ee6ca3a5e7e1ec6dd3411eb344bc5036a8a7988f35a2622e8624ba7c18e888fc`	polyglot-child-pdf	Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x23271	37418 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35955 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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