PDF malware analysis — malicious · ed8dc75083c8c305

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.7 KB

MD5: cae1fbff016c0b126f191c883c1e9569 SHA-1: 512e7bc5c5f5eb277c6f911a0c42dc33a35029a2 SHA-256: ed8dc75083c8c3050edae029efeceb58feb6646ec9224b0cd754493956c56115

166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, including a large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager. This indicates the script is designed to obfuscate its malicious actions, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' further supports its malicious nature. The presence of JavaScript actions and eval calls points to the use of T1059.005 (Visual Basic) and potentially T1059.001 (PowerShell) for execution.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0006_000.js` `e26c74ba6263b7aee4089e534958d6bbe2f985163257df32d1858f02c661673c`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143	425279 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).

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