Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd6e9dcaf81003ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB Created: 9352-01-01 Authoring application: 8399
MD5: 50c726326326927e23ea192c53b53570 SHA-1: aa10bfbf39c195111a94ead67d60aa03b1fd57b0 SHA-256: fd6e9dcaf81003ca26ecc9b0c613be186aa4cdbfddbabb1ee14a319ea4f4a674
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS'. The critical 'ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36014' detection strongly suggests exploitation of a known PDF vulnerability. The embedded JavaScript file 'javascript_obj0013_001.js' is suspicious due to obfuscation indicators, and its likely purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, aligning with common PDF-based attack chains.

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
e8d319f39a635465eed0883095b41a8cd0a313a985781d4868ece87bd8a3dfb7
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x328 4816 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).