Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e1ff971db04026c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.9 KB Created: 2009-08-15 15:24:23 Authoring application: MjWJeilfqbVDNLql (via EkFThvGnSLTpiH)
MD5: bb9bb04a34339c9cfe77e2c5c4e65b63 SHA-1: eeb2dcea607b511749a9a212bd4d9f272ae694f5 SHA-256: 9e1ff971db04026c4401cf597fb15f92affcfc7b186a9bd24bea0c2ff1d168e4
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics including ML classification and ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-1465. The embedded JavaScript, identified as javascript_obj0007_000.js, is likely responsible for exploiting a PDF vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload. The ML classifier's high confidence score supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-1465 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-1465
  • 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.
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
1aea5a7e8a6abab8f46b252e29a2fa08be5bbe260b22db0384cdaf0c8b64c5b0
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x2A5 14896 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).