Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dded95df6fed463…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB
MD5: 592ea3741f11c9cc2cdc794ecc0ce2f9 SHA-1: 3839eae3e69463eccc97cee2905a5ea9bd653f4c SHA-256: 1dded95df6fed463453b4cc2f5028bfd936b720fcfb6eb1f7922e4ee8fd7a73f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. It contains embedded content and an embedded script payload, indicating it is designed to deliver a secondary exploit or malware. The embedded artifact is also flagged by ClamAV.

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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.
  • 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 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_file_obj0008.bin
51a112110c3b09436efedc23d0c0f76fcde16aed6ccc451f20978a9d9697b8b6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 46834 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely