Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8867fc370656030…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.3 KB
MD5: 093506fac3dfd28a16b1da38ae0a50ee SHA-1: 6ee6ec1855847790816ee14e3ae9970efbbd59eb SHA-256: e8867fc370656030016bb9017e98c53779d0d45198e421698c463068d9b54ea1
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious and obfuscated. Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded JavaScript, including the use of String.fromCharCode and ASCIIHexDecode filters, suggesting an attempt to hide malicious code. The extracted JavaScript file, 'javascript_obj0007_000.js', is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, potentially downloading additional malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • 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_obj0007_000.js
b5e916fb44150f060ac257e899e7571597da28ecb0c4cd94488f04fa048a8106
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19E 13039 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).