Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 014d9f12c44538ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: c5c00f19ed2d64b964b2b18a62968c3b SHA-1: 880f8ac009ebae8473740fe427799aea7664b5e2 SHA-256: 014d9f12c44538abf8e53a63b4e531522384dfa95ede217c234eb679c415e810
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836'. The presence of XFA forms with risky executable scripts indicates an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities or execute malicious code upon opening. The embedded artifacts and script payload suggest a downloader or exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
7389a38b4e24e53f55d835cc3e637405bf03f66068a6238424c6a985d3b4d37a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 690 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
9b3e3137f794b4b7749fdedcd46db5dc4d1f380440711c5edf7fc00a7458da87
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x44A 125 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
b445e15133e9dbc6d3a1ec555648881ba1dbd463c11d77ed8e1d13205e63d72b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x512 409 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6F6 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
52a01d7ae46db7f1e9c6d7a85a466da05f50647123526191af3de161591dac18
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x801 40704 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA74B 68 bytes