Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ca5981078612cad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB
MD5: 72be02e05e3918da7233f9530990caf8 SHA-1: 7baa37a6e34ed02e64adac8c01bc5d89b880d4da SHA-256: 0ca5981078612cad75c676ca138581cc7e7bda9f88be7fa4961a02c2b2cb79e9
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF utilizes XFA (XML Forms Architecture) and contains an embedded JavaScript payload. The script appears to be obfuscated but is designed to execute, likely downloading and running a secondary malicious file. ClamAV detections further confirm the malicious nature of the file, identifying it as a PDF exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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.
  • 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_pdf_script_00000246.bin
185a6fde5b93d49d12c8cf2d1e1322ed4b0340bc29eca7fe1150aeefe209de27
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 95096 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely