Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f02718de217363aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.2 KB Created: 2009-04-23 03:31:20 Authoring application: dGOuDamLOGhTgAa (via YIBfuzJJLClFhppb)
MD5: bc17efdfdd98ecfe3d49300a9a31e91d SHA-1: f4fa748fe3a3b93c33d8f529049b41326e7c8b31 SHA-256: f02718de217363aa0b647c0d7f5f307aa950f242824576f778b7e6b1c529f8cb
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572'. Embedded JavaScript, obfuscated using String.fromCharCode, is present and likely responsible for executing the exploit. The presence of JavaScript actions and streams indicates an attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35572
  • 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.
  • 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
f8bd64637cfe37e4595558ef7b7af6469f0ab9cd15f3f5a13a5ca29012676a8b
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x570 8270 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).