Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecb981da9a828ded…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.7 KB
MD5: 09df1615831a0ca1f229d617d525a9bf SHA-1: aa3f2f2dc2e5083fcd2ea24ba5ab4e71627f601c SHA-256: ecb981da9a828ded3e8fe5df485af646337e6a445da2e241bfb4a73cc184f1af
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, including a heavily obfuscated 'eval stager' that is designed to execute arbitrary code. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' strongly suggests this is a known exploit. The primary function of the script appears to be downloading and executing a secondary payload, indicated by the heuristic firings related to JavaScript execution and eval calls.

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
e31b5cd0c607d1a716d3550f984b5d613cfb6e37db0864ff6a59fea9e71e346f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 425607 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).