Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e283353cdc5d904d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 5345-01-01 Authoring application: 376
MD5: 209a7407d7e47f4903436c6cf61f71df SHA-1: 5686a6f3e2d3f8439cf606ed08ac29009bcc7d48 SHA-256: e283353cdc5d904d224f3a17f1461cc9027310a3c8f4232a7c075006b8d6a60d
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014. The embedded JavaScript is obfuscated, suggesting it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader or download a secondary payload. The extracted document body content is heavily corrupted and unreadable, providing no further context on the lure.

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
55cb3de2f0a672deb31edaf21d46edf5e77f686dce23dd0f03e84c9c8341d751
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4784 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).