Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d505a0a1c4f1fe85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.2 KB
MD5: f7853ac8b1a84a430a24a5dfce078152 SHA-1: 605a5bc660e70bcd73e7aa59c98960487bd3e273 SHA-256: d505a0a1c4f1fe8564e4748fb8a7ddd657bccc35882eef7c07c4d42c70285d08
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF sample was flagged as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082) and a machine learning classifier. Static analysis revealed embedded JavaScript streams containing obfuscated code, including calls to eval(), unescape(), and String.fromCharCode(). These techniques are commonly used to hide malicious actions, such as downloading and executing further payloads. The primary intent appears to be the execution of this obfuscated JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj111611_000.js
772da696bdb365f3f1eb4ea6af881baad391be62f3591b19f2f9827fcc4c9b53
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 111611 at offset 0x7D6 479 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
b9fb11d4696b3a8130fe9cb0c2ee1dd1b4a112e71f4b6852389baa23528b7f8c
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x189 2816 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).