Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db18eeb1622467d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.2 KB
MD5: 46b6e1bcc23a3bf53b7c060acafe1858 SHA-1: 2cccdea5ecc9c6e4965e81efd9cfe54f9b1cda9b SHA-256: db18eeb1622467d19efa8a2781041f78f88fe658093d97045cd0c6b7b06aeaf0
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is heavily obfuscated using eval() and unescape() functions. This obfuscated JavaScript is designed to execute malicious code, as indicated by the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36082'. The presence of multiple JavaScript-related heuristics and the critical ClamAV alert strongly suggest an exploit attempt within the PDF.

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 0x7D2 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
e2b623c0afcfc1ed432253edebec2c3f9363648caac731ce380e8d4e38d82977
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x189 2810 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).