Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee86bb9e951831cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.5 KB Authoring application: Jgaxivakafowizasi (via c2537Uohosicilab)
MD5: 0bf498924cda4e93fb0d6a8df0a9de41 SHA-1: 8c660a10eef60cde46383a3b3397212c890c5f57 SHA-256: ee86bb9e951831cc7d53ead27cc1d9d0ad691213289ba61db53521e94daae5cb
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for obfuscated objects and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of embedded JavaScript, detected by PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS rules, suggests an attempt to execute code. However, the JavaScript content was not fully extracted or was too obfuscated to determine its specific payload or intent, leading to a lower confidence score.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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