Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e271ea09a97e98c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.0 KB
MD5: 0d918adc994eac6d76ac7276e357b04a SHA-1: e5d32245f216472e05054932dbb23ee0fab4a1ed SHA-256: e271ea09a97e98c7d0a7003d6723cd49340ae60ee9ec13baab369e7d08c8fd67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains obfuscated JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics including 'PDF_JS_OBFUSCATED_DROPPER'. This script is designed to act as a dropper, likely downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7315375-0' further confirms its malicious nature as a dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7315375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7315375-0
  • Obfuscated multi-stage PDF JavaScript dropper high PDF_JS_OBFUSCATED_DROPPER
    PDF JavaScript shows 3 independent signals of exploit-kit-style multi-stage obfuscation: annot_subject_stage, hex_dashed_payload, repeated_pluginschk. This is strongly consistent with pre-2011 Adobe Reader PDF droppers — OpenAction JS reads encoded data from annotation subjects, decodes it through one or more hex / base-N loops, and invokes eval indirectly (method name built one character at a time). The actual CVE is hidden in the final decoded layer and is not visible via static analysis.
  • 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.
  • syncAnnotScan annotation-staging primitive low PDF_FOXIT_SYNCANNOTSCAN
    PDF JavaScript calls syncAnnotScan() — a no-op annotation-enumeration primitive used by exploit-kit JavaScript to stage payload reads from annotation /Subject fields before eval(). Not a vulnerable sink itself; rarely seen in legitimate PDFs. (matched in decompressed 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0005_000.js
a3319192cac6d4dc4eeb6af2d736b0ffec979b23116a003bc7c23382761c32a5
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 5 at offset 0x148 733 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
503fc3eceaa4f5bedaea037bd3ee6c7043503367a4066a952c139fbb8bad8f4e
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1B30 12435 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
deobfuscated.js
8dc820ae96f7409fb33a57e9f24f273520c1b37db5e029f9fc953d63526a9583
deobfuscated-js PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass 62335 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).