Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f03bbd88344d14d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 286 Authoring application: 9403
MD5: f60ec082d856bb033fa3162ab3e64d18 SHA-1: 6623a1dfa63ca88170e510c4fb3e70ee0dae4820 SHA-256: 9f03bbd88344d14d988385442299edf06cce59ad998570aa2e4a5e60c19832d8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014) and a machine learning classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is obfuscated and suspicious according to static triage. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, as indicated by the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic and the presence of an extracted JavaScript file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0013_001.js
1e789d8d5548adfe7b6aca677c51f7532dddd685666495d14d32d8986f10110e
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4796 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 hex-escaped blob(s).