Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae7cc2b400b51851…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.5 KB
MD5: 5eb816ac7ca23dc47caa2b73cc4c80d6 SHA-1: 7ff864040c77e668364c4bd1f3243b615bd04667 SHA-256: ae7cc2b400b51851c8b5ecd58a916426c66d38db58e5b9a2defaa01bb24e3b8e
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, including a high-severity heuristic for a 'Large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager'. This indicates the script is designed to obfuscate its true purpose, which is likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' further supports its malicious nature. No document body was available for analysis, so the rationale is based solely on the script behavior and exploit indicators.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager high PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL
    PDF JavaScript contains a very large stream padded with long random-looking block comments around String.fromCharCode and eval. This is an exploit-kit obfuscation shape used to bury a decoder and recovered stage inside noise, not normal PDF form automation.
  • 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_obj0006_000.js
178a843530f4e79d421112b6e518ab0bca89105451bacdaf58acbd9252d61449
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 627249 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 42 long base64-like blob(s).