Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b85c26e6a551786…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.9 KB
MD5: 784f4346957e94d14c0f5c740a5d6502 SHA-1: 96cb0bf8c0839fefa394399515078eda67174505 SHA-256: 1b85c26e6a551786552d776b9d2ffd948c3f80d1b1d05de32bba4cc13b4f584a
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggered critical heuristics for PDF exploits and extracted file detections. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as indicated by the ClamAV detections 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809'. The presence of an XFA form further suggests a potential attack vector.

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.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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
a70cb990a1e5b732d55e967f0efeb1f858863fa847e6396aca629e493023dede
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14515 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely