Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d46739c9c847d4e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.2 KB
MD5: e5706ffc959f64d4d2e0d03f0f1dd6f5 SHA-1: 624353fe100af0c93d5890ee5cc21ee46621162f SHA-256: d46739c9c847d4e85d0becb6ab72542d988d2283e471d40f0abdae7aa26ccdc7
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript/Shell Script Execution: JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121 and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Static analysis revealed embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to download and execute further payloads. The ML classifier output of 0.999922 strongly supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121
  • 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_obj0007_000.js
51301b87796739154ba3a2cd589cc46ed9eb90e9efd2bc7a061e1fe619320e35
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x9C8 501 bytes