Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 071464a7ad223e43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: ea374183d924eb3ac387320c618a5dd4 SHA-1: 351fc8692c343c4351c143c51fb1683068558e1d SHA-256: 071464a7ad223e43c0da7e2a3cdce6837ef323f31d01db35ba64ccac28026fe5
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 exploitation of a known vulnerability. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads suggests that JavaScript is used to execute a secondary payload. The embedded artifact, 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', is likely the delivered malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
289de9b9fe061575417e72599c6927b70148826f39892e90880587843109b401		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42731 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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