Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18bbc909b3dfd369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: 5d9763a14f80a71c42bca0ace6a94955 SHA-1: 4dbcf328617f798bfef8b1599a846f666046bdd0 SHA-256: 18bbc909b3dfd3694e94200682acffc6ade43999faa7f557deb7b73eed9fd763
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious. ClamAV detections indicate it's an exploit that drops another malicious artifact. The embedded script, though truncated, suggests an attempt to execute code, likely to download and run a further payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
312a63a7da448c9c0513ae949e1a43a9d9f49173a547f3eaa7df8174e9ad150b
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14305 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely