Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccdb8021e98e2976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.4 KB First seen: 2026-05-10
MD5: 321ac915694785d74a9f976ac79c628f SHA-1: 8ec6f09a7ba784ed08434138723868cacea1008e SHA-256: ccdb8021e98e297612a7120c40069232e8000d0b9382462e3ab5cbb993ef19a6
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics. The JavaScript stream is obfuscated and uses an unescape() call, suggesting an attempt to hide malicious functionality. While no specific URLs or further script content were extracted, the presence of obfuscated JavaScript strongly implies an intent to download and execute a secondary payload or perform other malicious actions. The benign URLs present do not detract from this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 5

  • JavaScript action low 2 related findings PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
    Matched line in script
    return unescape(RandomVar8);
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off00000325.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x325 727 bytes
SHA-256: 50931e96ef9cc1eb650dec9e6ed79fa665a4c075de4166585931430b2c625cbd
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
objstm_0024_00.bin pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 24 0 obj (inflated) 331 bytes
SHA-256: c032f96b0c8ef538a6a112f912c9c882a6720f7320b6c05db1157ffd73001732

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