Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f708a23eb645e902…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.6 KB
MD5: ee09f130fc8f9254cb5d412e227c1801 SHA-1: 0d24fd3eb0adc3816f785058bd6c70bd457814c6 SHA-256: f708a23eb645e9025b298665a825d1f412a948d2e8bb6e31fb3526ddc965dfa4
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious. The JavaScript stream is obfuscated and appears to be a stager, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The document body contains seemingly random text, which is common in obfuscated malicious documents to evade simple content analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • Page-word XOR JavaScript eval stager high PDF_PAGE_WORD_XOR_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF JavaScript enumerates rendered page words with getPageNthWord/getPageNumWords, extracts encoded byte fragments, XOR-decodes the stage with char-code helpers, and evals the result. This is an old exploit-kit staging pattern and is not normal document JavaScript.
  • 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_obj0018_000.js
64dbb1b26294330f72a9c5b7a7778b4e255c7b7609626eddfee2e06a530f4473
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 18 at offset 0x14F2 1021 bytes