Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e69c2568c4ae463f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 5225-01-01 Authoring application: 2528
MD5: e8cc35658902e28c2ad34c92c4476f90 SHA-1: 45e1bc2f0e56e9180a70ecb4b12b568dd9960c1c SHA-256: e69c2568c4ae463fcb020aa81c1daeed8947bfcb2a82eaa9a0983fde71174482
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it contains an exploit. Embedded JavaScript, identified by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics, is present and likely responsible for the malicious activity. The extracted artifact 'javascript_obj0013_001.js' suggests the script attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
f2b39a82f188733783f2290dd7b716ee617cde9465a1820b45e7dff9ff63e8c5
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4787 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).