Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0994c2bb3676adc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 45ad7badcc5268ddf44c98abde6f0d8f SHA-1: 96b27921124e17693f2dbddd323d04a6da762043 SHA-256: 0994c2bb3676adc09d03a00d962916507a1713525d433f85b803b73d63089cc0
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains XFA forms with embedded JavaScript, flagged as risky executable script. This indicates an attempt to exploit a PDF vulnerability to run malicious code. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0014.bin' is likely the payload, and the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' confirms its malicious nature. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment.

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
e9bc281b16d95718cd2d834a798377a3aaa91186cb13c8c986e4982c839aa875
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 685 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
b9dc770324ae2a66fd1d9c8b9605e3a9ddaae9d1311dffe002d37a59fdc6e4bc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x445 183 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
ccb01c247084832da07bf67a3c3dadba937f3fdb6087321ee9b02a78e3a844f9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x547 355 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6F5 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
f5d47b297d89453c3cecdcb403a78eb9680c013916137eef21331e01e192f744
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x800 40632 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 0xA702 68 bytes