Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc327b278ca5b5ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.5 KB Authoring application: Jgaxivakafowizasi (via a1205Uohosicilab)
MD5: 2701827bd3da160f683df61f8c463db2 SHA-1: a4120f951af575046a019d482d3bc67348d5c900 SHA-256: bc327b278ca5b5ed1101dfda08435b6faab0971b67024608557b49c47c0186c4
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for obfuscated objects and an ML classifier. The presence of embedded JavaScript, indicated by PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics, suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code. While the JavaScript content itself was not fully detailed, its presence is a strong indicator of malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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_obj0011_000.js
c35f939b8b08b4458e4f2307d4bfd0afc23546c955e11c1da88e87302e40c9b0
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 11 at offset 0x1358 3029 bytes