Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19057a9f50c878ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB
MD5: 1e84c38ec6bc0ae3553fdcff34f4875d SHA-1: 6510e38a6772041b7803c4fc813946a325dfd86c SHA-256: 19057a9f50c878accb142f87a4631794c4f5ee0b5fe6d277b09ebe7b2d46bc1a
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded scripts and is flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830'. The presence of XFA forms with executable scripts indicates an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities for client execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • 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 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
ca5462a33502c7eec02a36be1e09bec669a774469e591f93f5c1c3d2a00037d5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 689 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
97314d9231379623057a8a77eeb79f9354bacffa50753a0f63b9e87e8d67dbf2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x449 186 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
211dd21c2bd53910c63ffbecce0266783215ab2767d74d36af1aa9fa65b946f4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x54E 376 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x711 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
c127c137009c1b30613077e390b1a17a1c52d7b7955f056b004fa7b300123195
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x81C 45423 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xB9D5 68 bytes