Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5794e1c9d929888…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: ccdf4e2b530d47fd7a7295b3190d4ea6 SHA-1: 87d15bda54fba6f201146f5f78a291eb015f4cfe SHA-256: c5794e1c9d929888393295e6c607f0cb70f3c9b1d2aa4bcf464b65e8e61d3e49
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36177 and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded JavaScript, which is commonly used to exploit PDF vulnerabilities and download further malicious content. The ML classifier's high confidence score and the specific ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is designed to deliver a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36177 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36177
  • 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_obj0007_000.js
a7e6203b0e8f812879ed8382ccbb3900ad81b5a92faf27692f51de6e8c96c13a
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x1A6 569 bytes