Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd1ccfd2df37a040…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.3 KB
MD5: 091ad0933d2aa1ff10cf1cf4ad75f338 SHA-1: 2e1968872374ae4e793b471230056b06666b0be5 SHA-256: bd1ccfd2df37a0409528fa1996bc0e6e059a8538b85812d557cb27cf6ac858d8
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file exhibits high-confidence malicious indicators, including ML classification and ClamAV detection for obfuscated content. Embedded JavaScript streams, identified as 'javascript_obj0116_000.js' and 'javascript_obj0123_002.js', contain obfuscated code with eval() and unescape() calls, strongly suggesting they are designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The specific URLs or execution commands are not directly reconstructible due to the obfuscation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0116_000.js
ed4758336e3cfad5ca7e1c026846dc2c595c3ab955b3a9bd1595b6320356fbc1
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 116 at offset 0x4BB 43727 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 230 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0123_002.js
55b1521fa99b0accdf81a1915dfb9ec47afdbbb345a2b2e033976ad6863e5b26
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 123 at offset 0x386 14747 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).