Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdb7e8e5a906f8b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB Created: 4000-01-01 Authoring application: 1094
MD5: 14fc8e305d861e63ab5e99954ceb4414 SHA-1: 29df59a4fba8571971b82651a9a6cb016a195953 SHA-256: bdb7e8e5a906f8b6c2bbe74fea9bd848810def500b8db56aa02c83f2d5a91fa6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014. It contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics, and a suspicious extracted JavaScript file. The ML classifier's high confidence score suggests a strong likelihood of exploit activity. The primary attack vector appears to be leveraging JavaScript within the PDF to execute malicious code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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_obj0013_001.js
93a61b00df13f47ea58162c9aa33d9ed9022bb6bb9aa9c2ae5637c51112587de
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4643 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 10 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long hex-escaped blob(s).