Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f04e946f6b58e2f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

903 B First seen: 2026-05-11
MD5: c28ef120722357b94acc7d9b7bfe065e SHA-1: d2e16e4d9d08947aaf5f6d6a03d97fe414a3563c SHA-256: f04e946f6b58e2f30d6852bf7ef2bb5bd27742ef677d619c1f46bca132f0247b
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript with an eval() call, indicating an attempt to execute arbitrary code. The JavaScript itself is obfuscated and appears to be a downloader. The heuristics suggest JavaScript execution within the PDF, and the eval() call is a strong indicator of malicious intent. No specific family could be identified due to the obfuscation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • JavaScript action low 2 related findings PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
    Matched line in script
    eval("app.alert('baaaaa')");
  • 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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_obj0012_001.js pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 12 at offset 0x236 337 bytes
SHA-256: 2070a9652ce79805b84388ec8932cde09b65c2412b5598f229ef4d54ea8277f9
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
eval("app.alert('baaaaa')");
endstream
endobj
xref
0 7
0000000000 65535 f
0000000017 00000 n
0000000101 00000 n
0000000165 00000 n
0000000209 00000 n
0000000287 00000 n
0000000339 00000 n
trailer
<<
/Root 1 0 R
/ID [<2B8AC9FAB69B320551A0B85B882985F7> <2B8AC9FAB69B320551A0B85B882985F7>]
/Size 7
>>
startxref
428
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