Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad3be097984ee05b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.2 KB
MD5: c085a157a70bf9cea99b8d7b414ace1a SHA-1: b0be1f36c60b52b8173c9cdc9c34c1f63d4311d9 SHA-256: ad3be097984ee05b66a569c6377aabde0a29f52c103bb19f9636373ca7f7a33d
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121. Embedded JavaScript was also extracted, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code. The presence of JavaScript actions and embedded JS streams strongly suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121
  • 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_obj0007_000.js
b81f3af9ab09b487a2c966a78d583a81a77b05fb4b266a05a57d5178bb9b9dba
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x9CB 457 bytes