Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f976fc468e0d52cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.6 KB
MD5: 939633ea0f70140caf6f0fd0018914b6 SHA-1: fd8c6d75f304de0b12628247006c3558ea1fdc9a SHA-256: f976fc468e0d52cfa734d31e1e1d5bc73bc1220e39c425c8efb3245f3f6266fa
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded and obfuscated JavaScript, indicated by multiple PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristic firings. The presence of PDF_EVAL and PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL suggests the script is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086' further supports this assessment. The document body is unreadable, so the rationale is based solely on the script and heuristics.

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36086
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager high PDF_JS_LARGE_COMMENT_PADDED_EVAL
    PDF JavaScript contains a very large stream padded with long random-looking block comments around String.fromCharCode and eval. This is an exploit-kit obfuscation shape used to bury a decoder and recovered stage inside noise, not normal PDF form automation.
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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_obj0006_000.js
e5026bb50d16234e52ef322472c5d0505c19a6bbdbe73bcbe72d68894c7b14aa
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 627399 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 42 long base64-like blob(s).