Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05bdca5c9348e9b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 9075c8231b7d57b118e8b3c6b7c9b130 SHA-1: 5184f37d26de9531c9a921242dd43325e2665b22 SHA-256: 05bdca5c9348e9b0a9fc76e73cf1b9c781030eb26506045c1b7f6fe3c7df759e
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains XFA forms with executable scripts, a known method for delivering exploits. Heuristics indicate the presence of embedded script payloads and ML classifiers strongly suggest maliciousness. ClamAV also detected the file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830, confirming its malicious nature. The script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

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-36830 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
  • 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
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
73714b765a2aa6700f7a6472a0ae8de83c031a694afaea0af599be90388d85d6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 687 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
b9dc770324ae2a66fd1d9c8b9605e3a9ddaae9d1311dffe002d37a59fdc6e4bc		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x447 183 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
6946916afdc48e1244a5baf8bbdd6289bd1c485c90974f4a5501919a93012cf8		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x549 349 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6F1 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
221e9b2cadf88f1e0054b81361d46df57acb6469b37cd4220eb7df1d15493adf		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x7FC 40625 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA6F7 68 bytes

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