Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1349964350b401df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: 663955d15bf14575207003c891d47477 SHA-1: a5116be07fabdc4d98a3523e8ecf451de282edb1 SHA-256: 1349964350b401dfb06985f7327bf40d8ba9b31ac71c244d08bc072265757c9d
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious. ClamAV detections indicate it's an exploit that drops another malicious artifact. The embedded script, although heavily obfuscated, is characteristic of PDF exploits designed to download and execute further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
9705de33295522bedd3fcb2791fad5ba4596f35d95ddf5424b3447da8a8e0731
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 18022 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely