Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ef1410ffd026129…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.5 KB
MD5: c9bbdd3593cbc81351891cc64bfea9ee SHA-1: 5a7802fe561f6bc8944e2f90fbfa4b545335f0db SHA-256: 9ef1410ffd0261299767724c34d5e2c668c0c244239c51de23248b4c196dc2f3
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, including a call to eval() and a large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086, indicating it's a known exploit. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging a PDF vulnerability to execute malicious JavaScript, which likely leads to further stages of an attack.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager high PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL
    PDF JavaScript contains a very large stream padded with long random-looking block comments around String.fromCharCode and eval. This is an exploit-kit obfuscation shape used to bury a decoder and recovered stage inside noise, not normal PDF form automation.
  • 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)
  • 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_obj0006_000.js
ef9305c7a32257928d9757d151c138e620629bc99913bd8b1c46597c6366d28f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 626384 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 42 long base64-like blob(s).