Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7f62d4af871e896…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.2 KB Created: 2010-03-05 15:19:50 Authoring application: Laxiwoveja
MD5: 67e16e69f734d8a91004cc06c66282c6 SHA-1: 644115854cc0f3f8213ae9837ea7a68b58a188bc SHA-256: d7f62d4af871e8969f58a22744460dc29c07e4237308e6799e9a7c84369fc276
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic indicates this PDF is malicious, specifically detecting it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36066'. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by two heuristics, strongly suggests an exploit is being used to run code. The JavaScript stream is very large, indicating it may be obfuscated or contain a significant payload. Without further analysis of the script's content, the exact malicious action cannot be determined, but it is likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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