Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18229d66cc685d42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: 7c34405d941749c8f33825ca94e6a931 SHA-1: e8594348c7f3d4f57b484879ba0ac476d8b8081b SHA-256: 18229d66cc685d42cb822c0b6dbc85723ffc4654d927f6f5d45dc4dec38c3a56
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF utilizes XFA (XML Forms Architecture) and contains an embedded JavaScript payload, as indicated by multiple heuristics and ClamAV detections. The embedded script is designed to execute malicious code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789
  • 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.x&#102;a.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000325.bin
88b9ef51ba36777669315e5c28a7c2fb4aad758f0518f8d7d19830f81ac6f052
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x325 18006 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely