Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee8b19702d453f7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.0 KB
MD5: ca05d0c5c8f2122226cd86edef90380b SHA-1: 9ffc433b400c4dbd07b283eacfb1ccb7739697c4 SHA-256: ee8b19702d453f7b3989f2811c4c763d0e7c3a4d81524c4c249f4038215b7485
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains embedded JavaScript. The JavaScript stream, identified as 'javascript_obj0007_000.js', was obfuscated and likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of JavaScript actions and unescape calls within the PDF structure further supports this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (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.
  • 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_obj0007_000.js
a9dd7324e4744bed9a2ce2a38090c3bb5dcf6130cf6a6573f10efc41cb60c7de
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x233 48901 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 258 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).