Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0888ca65a37a525…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.5 KB
MD5: e8190bcf2fdddf063b1e2ca896bc3b78 SHA-1: 36940b0d60a62c88db9ec6b6f8e8f45e593d6e2b SHA-256: b0888ca65a37a525fcb1811b2ad81d2c9e50afc06d0aa0c5afddd332ae796805
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, including a call to eval() and a large comment-padded eval stager, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code. ClamAV identifies this as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086', strongly suggesting an exploit is present. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. No document body text was available for analysis, but the presence of JavaScript and the ClamAV signature point to an exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
884c7071e06806c387f91769ea0bbc4b17d09e51f7542d5cde51e686755eebf2
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 626292 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).