Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a55c7ab521f0906…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 6ed374e6fdbbb19ab9b19c3506f9cd2b SHA-1: c4a87f453440a7aca028437da33985adae6ff918 SHA-256: 0a55c7ab521f09060c97180f17db361adb00e5c2840e7e6c1b19d4a5b5977285
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains embedded scripts and files, indicating an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' strongly suggests a known exploit targeting PDF viewers.

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

Extracted artifacts 6

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
8d5a6f6ee54ddb34121b5c340ceaf0aa0308556b0457d1b40d86982643cc6a81
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 687 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
0fe7596619d7974f48bb0928a6efec8cf5bea691a6bfb71cb5fbc41c3ca73638
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x447 168 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
59abe3cbf3b96a4e7835023e8581043a7c3849414a5a25d9cea816bf4e29cee8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x53A 436 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x739 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
4971f185d46e2b7440b587a3f38932e0baa49cb9a5f9ae29461d11349424a64f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x844 40756 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely