Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3ad3443d7794635…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.2 KB
MD5: eb8164da8ab89cc5c2b0c2c39fcded0b SHA-1: ec62a0f03d3bbe0fe4eac64624433f8abd1294cd SHA-256: e3ad3443d7794635ebece223888434cf6c7a4ba6ca7ef3bfec2511a82a55ce80
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting an exploit. Embedded JavaScript actions and streams indicate the likely execution of arbitrary code. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic and ClamAV's Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121 detection strongly suggest this PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability, leading to the execution of a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36121
  • 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_obj0007_000.js
62c145f1ff6b495a40ce82530aa781f191f8d55f1021691f53b2546fceeb2217
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x9C7 514 bytes