Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02c4381e3b267cb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: 028cf2de555a414b05a9ff81107c5c56 SHA-1: 5f2c6be86951cfb984d06b35ca7f552131b1d056 SHA-256: 02c4381e3b267cb782e7efb766f51e5a5e5d000ab895989e92c0bcf6a8f710db
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded JavaScript payload. This script is designed to download and execute a secondary malicious artifact, as indicated by ClamAV detections of 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream low 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 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
cfefe55b91f763f1f46426ee3f9c6fdc21cec91557a579c4f51d49e4ebc3821b
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14262 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely