PDF malware analysis — malicious · daf10bfe5f53b1f5

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.5 KB

MD5: aecf657ba255cf6c6e8b39f508241912 SHA-1: d6ccbdd01ba8b93a7fa5943ca0d7e046d74fcf09 SHA-256: daf10bfe5f53b1f553c2d9d79401b564c6b639142ccc03f525b8f0fe2552847d

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94. Static analysis revealed embedded JavaScript, including an eval() call and the use of String.fromCharCode, indicating obfuscation. The embedded JavaScript stream is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, which is a common technique for PDF-based malware delivery.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-94
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (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.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0076_000.js` `c28effae366bd4b2a63fe29aea090a07947ae4e73aa9efc1cf87e16e006e7288`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 76 at offset 0x38BF	144 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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