Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17d0f9ac2a213175…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: 0b5bbd89b0162e49458fa91f7b6fc86b SHA-1: 9b608e4cf4893199054803f0cf491f5036479d3e SHA-256: 17d0f9ac2a21317510d33ea68d0bdf1a992f9eba4d29d612c283139a7cd519b7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830) and a high ML score, indicating malicious intent. The presence of embedded scripts and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and download a second-stage payload. The benign URLs present are likely decoys or standard PDF schema references.

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
a2d7c534d410b92392c056fd7067da18ab7f8606c78fcd8d1fddb4363b3e3927		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42912 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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