Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5ab7a7908a80393…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.5 KB
MD5: aaa7e3fff7b8a2a978746e565ff6e067 SHA-1: 430fdfcf6f2a9eb919cbdce20d1e7dc162b561e3 SHA-256: e5ab7a7908a803931d1eff8548b21ca2779d5ec9ea1d93b430cdd285a3e898b7
166 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', 'PDF_JS', and 'PDF_EVAL'. The presence of 'PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086) strongly suggests this JavaScript is malicious and designed to exploit a vulnerability. The script likely acts as a stager to download and execute a second-stage payload, as evidenced by the 'eval()' and 'String.fromCharCode' calls within the decoded stream.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager high PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL
    PDF JavaScript contains a very large stream padded with long random-looking block comments around String.fromCharCode and eval. This is an exploit-kit obfuscation shape used to bury a decoder and recovered stage inside noise, not normal PDF form automation.
  • 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.
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0006_000.js
afa4cf3a3b91862217857a68784ca8818b91a801d44fe72e449d41fe94fb1a1f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 626470 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 42 long base64-like blob(s).