Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dba7822bf3a34033…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.5 KB
MD5: d9ba949a96ae17a437c22af7daf65a0c SHA-1: 479fa3afca8615ab4c6599455de2eec8dc7e6dc8 SHA-256: dba7822bf3a34033683e9af475fa48bd16e1b7f6ed2dbcf6a58eed3620829198
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics including 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT', 'PDF_JS', and 'PDF_EVAL'. A high-severity heuristic 'PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL' indicates a stager designed to obfuscate its malicious intent. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' further confirms its malicious nature. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary function appears to be downloading and executing a secondary payload, as suggested by the stager heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager high PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL
    PDF JavaScript contains a very large stream padded with long random-looking block comments around String.fromCharCode and eval. This is an exploit-kit obfuscation shape used to bury a decoder and recovered stage inside noise, not normal PDF form automation.
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0006_000.js
940d2409aa3dbbe242d3c8a4f2d09ea0ea2a0909d4e16c50e1b56f80de3b70b4
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 627050 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 42 long base64-like blob(s).