Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb73ac0801fb3238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.5 KB Authoring application: Tisilarehaue (via d4190Tibedegabala)
MD5: 268eac7db211a25cc8898cf7b600c299 SHA-1: d5cde74bba650f79dbdaa2a178cdab66a4b7dd04 SHA-256: cb73ac0801fb323885fbc6144f68bc4aabbf16abc9c67ac4feca739426e68986
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic indicates this PDF is recognized as a known exploit (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36142). The presence of embedded JavaScript, detected by PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics, strongly suggests that the exploit leverages this script to perform malicious actions. The script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, which is a common attack vector for such documents.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36142 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36142
  • 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_obj0010_000.js
d4dce4f95f7146e3b127d68edf45ceb045483a205d9e9a2a53d6e6b80d83b663
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 10 at offset 0x1230 1728 bytes