Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fcc7059adab3c77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: b16e41fd4bc592be9e9f0e686e377373 SHA-1: 1877b847f621539146d013f8a3206b2b900c1e04 SHA-256: 0fcc7059adab3c77c8bd328f0787f4710a50607e48812b2d634b0a13168016bf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to exploit a client-side vulnerability to execute further malicious code, likely a downloader. The benign URLs extracted do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the heuristics.

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
9ffdcfd343ca8faf6a7e97a0cea556a7723a143ccdbe4092a1534b5c24253f4a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43021 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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