Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13f64f13cca0d014…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 4b4772f979f50f7b9b77c214c0d15e84 SHA-1: d151ebdb682f531c9d02111f0338b3d595e3e629 SHA-256: 13f64f13cca0d0149c6b0462344a21dd733d13909e94a0f169cc973cb76d5fe5
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. It contains an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger, indicating it is designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded artifact stream_001_off000008ed.bin likely contains the exploit payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
66faa817cac2b1e967c951f2734ea067ff315e81416ea8acb105788b1153add2
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1469 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).