Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cb4d9b2980e02f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB
MD5: 5eeeb79b4b88f7f9b6b79f20a242688b SHA-1: d78d71336c5c00c3abdeb152f84fab906ca962ab SHA-256: 1cb4d9b2980e02f5813a2354223935fc25b472b3d4a1869ad5f60acd051d5289
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload within an XFA form, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and PDF_XFA heuristics. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the exploit, leading to the delivery of a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with XFA form functionality.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_0000026c.bin
39a7f603083169fc708ab5b8219394a3d8aeb55915e9e2916b2a06efd0ae1936
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26C 98867 bytes