PDF malware analysis — malicious · a916d1c3ced75b0a

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.5 KB

MD5: 9fcdb23a27821202d600d50b0f72c9dd SHA-1: 88514ef42bfe1d96b1d3ee16198d25920cdbbcb7 SHA-256: a916d1c3ced75b0af69609cb30fdb2f0967ba90012e5d835be4b26fe82eff393

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, which identified it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94'. Static analysis revealed embedded JavaScript with obfuscated code, including calls to eval() and String.fromCharCode(), indicating an attempt to hide malicious actions. The JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, a common technique for initial access.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
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.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0076_000.js` `c28effae366bd4b2a63fe29aea090a07947ae4e73aa9efc1cf87e16e006e7288`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x38D4	144 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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