Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cd29efeb258d3bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: c6af6c49c19822bd5245b61069bdff06 SHA-1: 25929c57a4f9dcea21e3876980657fbcf1e7c660 SHA-256: 1cd29efeb258d3bcdef6b9df9292ad9a06941d0596786a7271cfac1e46f787e0
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and utilizes XFA forms, both flagged as malicious by heuristics and a machine learning classifier. ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789. The embedded script is likely responsible for exploiting vulnerabilities within the PDF reader to execute malicious code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789
  • 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.x&#102;a.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000325.bin
52ea4118abbabd8b7f065dde138c4aef0cb7f183ae7056281e40ef0be95f4369
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x325 18030 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely