Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e44c37e054e7bac1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.2 KB Created: 2010-03-05 15:19:50 Authoring application: Laxiwoveja
MD5: d19a5987a6d4d21f2971bc75749a33a9 SHA-1: e157d1490165454665dc7cea93c4ade16c96ca06 SHA-256: e44c37e054e7bac16b860aa4cd2a0bf9150fa1ea3ded6e31351b03a4056654fb
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic indicates the file is a known PDF exploit, specifically 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36066'. Low-severity heuristics confirm the presence of embedded JavaScript actions and streams within the PDF. While the document body is unreadable and no scripts were explicitly carved out, the combination of PDF exploit detection and JavaScript suggests the file is designed to leverage a vulnerability to run malicious code, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36066 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36066
  • 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_obj0022_000.js
22e7b9b95199cc294a88baec03e968aa698abb89fdbf202e98b946c7b2639771
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 22 at offset 0x30AF 971255 bytes