Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e88fd74ba771739…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB
MD5: e743ae1b20ca6bff74a9634a573e9841 SHA-1: 657a190fe8dcc94f0d320df86133f50f2e291cbe SHA-256: 0e88fd74ba7717396be26498e812a04d02c663548d03235b5048e55401dfdb21
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript within an XFA form, a known vector for exploitation. Heuristics and ClamAV detections indicate this is a malicious exploit targeting PDF viewers. The embedded script is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent' signatures.

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
c570698018dec49abdd7c35cc5003e3ee5e9e143a6ea3acf45b9824b4fa8aa7c
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 95638 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely