Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf78d0cd1d3216d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.2 KB
MD5: dcf32b53226855a666a07541402cefb8 SHA-1: 1e8d13ee74c8b4327729924ce9931be39431e37b SHA-256: cf78d0cd1d3216d83c2f52f51fab1de200b7ff24ccc433b7cc3bdd2195503822
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious and obfuscated. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript streams are the primary indicators of malicious activity, likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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.
  • 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_obj0006_000.js
62bf3bf786be38fcc7730f5312b93138fa7e29a9554755c441f16f8b19fcb0aa
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x1C0 4096 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0006_001.js
d4ec2747a3f49c9ae39f6e68dd52403dd052843b61fecdd31a0975e5e2563cb6
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x1C0 8426 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).