PDF malware analysis — malicious · edf189c4ea092e88

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.0 KB Created: 2009-02-19 14:45:49 -02:00 Authoring application: Writer (via OpenOffice.org 3.0)

MD5: a4ef45d834df3b6ffed33acfa91a7de1 SHA-1: 2aef4e00ac0fad08df54893700e547c01973e0be SHA-256: edf189c4ea092e889c4b7974a1918827182041fdc2f9801b9ccf9651f30363f0

196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35541. Static analysis detected several high-severity heuristics related to PDF JavaScript execution, including PDF_LAUNCH and PDF_EVAL, indicating the document attempts to run malicious code. The embedded JavaScript stream, javascript_obj0027_000.js, is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35541 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35541
Launch action high PDF_LAUNCH

PDF contains a /Launch action with an unresolved or extension-less target — treat as potentially dangerous
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
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_obj0027_000.js` `386997590b72cecbc7e377522ce430a709c58e5f1eaadcc1f32e6733869bd82c`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 27 at offset 0x21C1	14141 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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