Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08fb36a11aa77d8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 094c15fc2b76f9dd187e39667fed4c3a SHA-1: e1b37f4e257048a10b5fe8b32e546c950772da3f SHA-256: 08fb36a11aa77d8fd13018bdd6b786da98af316436131f311a947683d9f27427
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830) and an ML classifier. The presence of embedded script and XFA forms suggests an attempt to exploit client-side vulnerabilities. While the specific script content is obfuscated, the overall pattern indicates it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload.

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
19c484d1ce43faa053e184d73381bfad5df947539d89e7d0a3811b1288335695
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42750 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely