Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c77c93dde74cfbd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

8.3 KB
MD5: f9ce327496f1aae72dced580349579e0 SHA-1: 1db6624c42bba2dbb153779e96649c25ff03849c SHA-256: c77c93dde74cfbd58c954b05d90ec9037c5a5e54e668ba2170a2553193513303
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains embedded JavaScript streams. The JavaScript appears to be heavily obfuscated using eval() and String.fromCharCode, making it difficult to determine the exact payload. However, the presence of these obfuscation techniques and embedded scripts strongly suggests an attempt to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The extracted file names 'javascript_obj0008_000.js' and 'javascript_obj0008_001.js' are included as IOCs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • 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.
  • 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_obj0008_000.js
c240b3003fc6b2d4589b502ea6522de6ba20dc686f57461dd02f90cb69fceb74
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 8 at offset 0x23A 7762 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
javascript_obj0008_001.js
54b602dbcb3c74cff9a5bbda1f457ad31ca63037ac81c3ac366a949ad0c605af
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 8 at offset 0x23A 7298 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).