Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c42ba92dc7b0904…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 2ee69cebf01ff8ff21de055fea523d6d SHA-1: ec6afb2b180b01e80f954fcc1b1a31606bc3b8f7 SHA-256: 1c42ba92dc7b09040c8f87522b6004d1444f494b0eb8ba7e5ea4163f71037275
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. Heuristics indicate the presence of an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger, common components in PDF exploits. An embedded artifact, 'stream_001_off000008ed.bin', was also flagged as suspicious. The combination of these factors strongly suggests the PDF is intended to exploit a vulnerability, likely for delivering a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
6290d1869455259f376ace0c2f4628eb3661b36433a3f5063d41c79fae21f3fd
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1476 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).