Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb1005e93f001eae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.5 KB Authoring application: Jgaxivakafowizasi (via 7702eUohosicilab)
MD5: 822791c9a03fda5e6c33547b8398d2a1 SHA-1: 662dd9225ca73c870915233fe313c47efdd0d0d6 SHA-256: eb1005e93f001eae04b1510b563e1cf4a3f005ae8e4ae370379c8570b94ea41d
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript, identified by the 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS' heuristics, strongly suggests that the file is designed to execute code. While the JavaScript content itself was not fully detailed, its presence in a heuristically detected malicious PDF points towards it being used to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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_obj0011_000.js
c35f939b8b08b4458e4f2307d4bfd0afc23546c955e11c1da88e87302e40c9b0
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 11 at offset 0x1358 3029 bytes