Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8b89b6081e3a0eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 2070-01-01 Authoring application: 8099
MD5: f89713588ded37169312f337b398334f SHA-1: 2e43d5e7a587358fb4e71189e1e04f9c54ad8cc2 SHA-256: f8b89b6081e3a0ebd83662e8f686261d7cd7fa46f4894d1cf000eda1f089ca70
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014. Static analysis revealed embedded JavaScript, indicating an attempt to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader. The JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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_obj0013_001.js
08119502c73e1fcdef42c4d99fe7738c87e6dafbac458c19debde29bbf667a26
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4812 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 10 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long hex-escaped blob(s).