PDF malware analysis — malicious · ece52bb84140ec9d

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB

MD5: b3807ec24e903a35ce1a389e904dbd2f SHA-1: c21bcfda0232b13c1cbd228602aee22589191d4a SHA-256: ece52bb84140ec9df85763d353731c86322d3eb0760d88dda374c100b7db0c97

124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file exhibits multiple indicators of malicious activity, including embedded Flash content and JavaScript streams. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The presence of embedded files and JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute arbitrary code or exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader. The extracted JavaScript file, 'javascript_obj0006_000.js', is likely responsible for the malicious behavior, potentially downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA

PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector
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.
Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED

PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`Adobe.swf` `ce5f7936cf8e3536a88a804ce2d6902022df1794fa878bdc64a26866e34ba989`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0xABD	55839 bytes
`javascript_obj0006_000.js` `3d18765a6ea1897b1d6fce9a1ad89fcb084860dff0aa5e860aed3610e4f9df39`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0xF5	1558 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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