Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f043e4e8410c3c02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB Created: 2010-03-20 06:46:51
MD5: 07ed23df5a663a1b7670816877017890 SHA-1: 461b3b873ab8e8b315df2d916928df8fe31c6886 SHA-256: f043e4e8410c3c02e795ce0e51dc4c5a361877f672bbbbe47d5421c2abc08ccb
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-21699 and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the presence of JavaScript actions and embedded JS streams within the PDF. While the document body text is heavily corrupted, the presence of JavaScript strongly suggests an attempt to exploit a vulnerability and execute arbitrary code, likely for downloading and running a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-21699 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-21699
  • 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_obj0020_000.js
718bc392ea082607e72bc2560d47728679f7a1727e6d9681e40bdab94cf4e29e
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 20 at offset 0x2CFD 1176 bytes