Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fc0bd3f6fe63a3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB Created: 2008-31-20 53:85:00 Authoring application: aaaaaaaa
MD5: b223c7b5574adc11a7354c48d93287e2 SHA-1: 7ed80d90c8c63465ea65e3b4a6bdbefa145a5e2b SHA-256: 9fc0bd3f6fe63a3aa73cc032ab726a53845a447b99e6731527df817928ffab93
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it contains an exploit. A JavaScript stream was extracted, suggesting the execution of malicious code. The ML classifier's high confidence score and the ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of the file. The presence of JavaScript points towards an attempt to execute arbitrary code, likely for exploitation.

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
  • 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.
  • 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_obj0013_001.js
26a454774915a5c60d11ec7e1d163538a6cb6ef6565b43b5ec7e7bd8fcaf69cc
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4003 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 6 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).