Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 137bef09eb9dd371…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 639694c28500a923ad3c5b670655dd57 SHA-1: 4d651bfd6d9c3bd8fb5b5080ed831c9f634be70c SHA-256: 137bef09eb9dd371a10cee817193cabe84d2485a583973711078d18c6cea9cfa
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The embedded script, although partially obfuscated, appears to be JavaScript, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness.

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
89111d2a10b556eea6d90c4242c51e720731dfdbdc016bd2d7b3fb4038795d9e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43023 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely