Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05196b7dfbd80d25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: cbc78d43b53cee48d726c870c53deae3 SHA-1: 8ef4c89bd1491e4b4cb2bcde23e781628d36a6a0 SHA-256: 05196b7dfbd80d25749bad8de5bfe627728acf865d8f80fb8a78c62a72805a30
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it contains an exploit. Heuristics confirm the presence of embedded scripts and files within the PDF structure, suggesting it's designed to deliver a secondary payload. The embedded script, though obfuscated, likely attempts to download and execute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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 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://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
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
f532686ac8cff1cc170b23709aa9012760530fcfca5930f3a26207358a5edb50		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 691 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x460 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
ad63cd18dc60e820609f416a40471dabdd3253b737648e4a36aade41f353f5cd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x508 518 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x759 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
5a309a2c664ed75a491b7d91b6ed1e66f9f032e29fd141d310bc478f41ffe3de		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x864 40906 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA878 147 bytes

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