Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8c64149bcd1d6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2009-05-01 21:21:45 Authoring application: tvEeSFCPx (via NeTSnrx)
MD5: f268227549588b779751388b57742179 SHA-1: 5bed5bed30c865daac904f53ecfeaed8f97a2851 SHA-256: aa8c64149bcd1d6d77ea98fe22b86b386eba76c040f7ec204825e68572a3f507
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that utilizes eval() to decode and execute a malicious payload. This is strongly indicated by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT, PDF_JS, and PDF_EVAL heuristic firings, as well as the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classification and ClamAV detection. The JavaScript appears to be designed to exploit a known vulnerability within PDF viewers to achieve arbitrary code execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-21812 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-21812
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • 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.