Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd0a2e566acb2123…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.2 KB Created: 2010-03-05 15:19:50 Authoring application: Laxiwoveja
MD5: f255456f31ce7444380c8a6c7a415ea5 SHA-1: bb51f0533e1a41ae37156c2fdb12860056bf5a89 SHA-256: cd0a2e566acb21239e9f90889cd68b80c5eb81dbb57670291f10a34b1fa83d00
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36066. Static analysis detected embedded JavaScript, indicating an attempt to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be the execution of embedded JavaScript, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36066 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36066
  • 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_obj0022_000.js
22e7b9b95199cc294a88baec03e968aa698abb89fdbf202e98b946c7b2639771
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 22 at offset 0x30AF 971255 bytes