Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df464ac49dd327ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 6838-01-01 Authoring application: 4726
MD5: be4a6c23a0058b156efc5ae63a642754 SHA-1: b98f5a3f3858408bc5761fe8f9ef741a81b96ccb SHA-256: df464ac49dd327adaa5d1bf265deae0eaca65cafe1171754b56a994569bc48ac
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. Static analysis detected embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader. The ML classifier's high confidence score and the specific ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014' strongly indicate a known PDF exploit. No document body text was available for analysis, but the presence of JavaScript points to an exploit execution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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_obj0013_001.js
cf08837e4779483e2af73c016c3f614fea90716f424f0406bce7b28963ad6c6f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4751 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 10 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long hex-escaped blob(s).