Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16d2cd26291ff58b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: 20ee201ce6ebc9b8fbd7dff532babe0c SHA-1: 0a2518e99ee3e0e290a16dd3866e04c23d3d0f63 SHA-256: 16d2cd26291ff58b619708126e6cb5db99ceb1ee0f438c193233447ed4afba13
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 ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability for client execution. The presence of embedded scripts and an embedded file further supports this. While specific delivery is unknown, it is likely delivered as an attachment.

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
20f1a7996f3a1b03ff8d4f869d7247c96d56e775321ab9ca9a4723b3dbe26200		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43145 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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