Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbbe2ef3b74f8a0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.7 KB
MD5: 7c0c4af55c4a20f4991f936b6eb05dcb SHA-1: 31a290ae263576da69259f2f81189678cd175fbf SHA-256: fbbe2ef3b74f8a0e68cc65c98ce6a35a673767e537268e00cd21413aa6503409
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript T1204.001 Malicious Link/URL T1071.001 Web Protocols

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT, PDF_JS, and PDF_EVAL. The 'Large comment-padded JavaScript eval stager' heuristic suggests a complex obfuscation technique commonly used to hide malicious code. The presence of extracted JavaScript files, 'javascript_obj0006_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js', further confirms the use of JavaScript. This JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, a common attack pattern for PDF exploits.

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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0006_000.js
249cc5fb945c39684227d12a6bd6478c86e77c3a48891def49696cf32c3030c6
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x143 424623 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).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
fddc6d32fa803056d5a8fcb55697e5c9b949e779c1db7fdc9dc7ee31a6ed5797
deobfuscated-js double percent-decoded annotation JavaScript at offset 0x143 262144 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 587 long base64-like blob(s).