Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9501311cac859f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.1 KB
MD5: ac695f8ef9597c73c5767d30892a98b3 SHA-1: 6b8ecbe7c873be7d1fe049291958b5d6d428427f SHA-256: ce9501311cac859f4b9db8fff6b5080d6970c46ef86e91c4724a99e1cc664e34
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7306002-0) and flagged by an ML classifier. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of JavaScript with eval(), unescape(), and String.fromCharCode() calls, suggesting obfuscated code execution. The embedded JavaScript file, javascript_obj111611_000.js, likely contains the logic for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, which is a common dropper behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7306002-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7306002-0
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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. (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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj111611_000.js
9864171cc4152f5d3e5671809dd40cebe1cf9319d0b8bfb0abd003cff50482db
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 111611 at offset 0x742 332 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).