Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb6f2afdaf3ef582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.7 KB
MD5: a4c271bbe0921f4881b33dbca2142c4d SHA-1: d15f28c7fdb1976895868739f50a846078d92c37 SHA-256: bb6f2afdaf3ef5825c100aec62dfacf2f2fc6a74c3fabea075c6c0514e37fcb6
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 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 malicious actions, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' further supports this assessment. No specific family could be identified, but the attack pattern is consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

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
b5d39e5174c6d6e54c568b01f59f301f8e3b1ced7f2a1fd1ddcacbaef91bd125
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 425475 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).