Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa2cf7bc8fdb4499…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB Created: 2009-02-19 14:45:49 -02:00 Authoring application: Writer (via OpenOffice.org 3.0)
MD5: d6c05c6fcfb0ea3475214e9e8b5b725c SHA-1: 7a304a60ee4a2e20f22e42975a99729a54204529 SHA-256: aa2cf7bc8fdb44999dc89831d1ac4317d3894c34464b7b699d646ab77eef4523
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a ClamAV signature (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35541) and a machine learning classifier. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of JavaScript actions, embedded JS streams, and eval() calls, suggesting the execution of obfuscated code. The 'PDF_LAUNCH' heuristic further points to an attempt to execute an external component. The embedded JavaScript stream, named 'javascript_obj0027_000.js', likely contains the malicious code responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35541 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35541
  • Launch action high PDF_LAUNCH
    PDF contains a /Launch action with an unresolved or extension-less target — treat as potentially dangerous
  • 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. (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_obj0027_000.js
b0fd194eb7ea60c0aa527f5333b474a34151fc3830b6e69b3a3e40d8b09b3459
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 27 at offset 0x21C1 4513 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).