Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1df43979c87b9517…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: f9bfba64312b528773cf0bc8cbdd97a9 SHA-1: a3913e719e04e16f1c0ea0d67ab98df7c1df8ac0 SHA-256: 1df43979c87b9517a74027141303104ae067931962b4e4c74571900b5b2296e3
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document contains embedded scripts and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including critical ClamAV detections for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836'. The presence of embedded files and XFA forms with risky executable scripts indicates an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The ML classifier also strongly suggests maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
c8c2c6e997f39abe71821cd70b4499c3a7d949aab0e7e72d4663225822106bae		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 690 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
9b3e3137f794b4b7749fdedcd46db5dc4d1f380440711c5edf7fc00a7458da87		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x44A 125 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
d267bc6efbbc4ebd64cc32e0beaddef75bf1da34b2f247a140a64367b0ef39f2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x512 400 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6ED 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
8cb3a2de699c9f5bedb98c41d47d025efac738cd9cf0daccc2559cd4821a653f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x7F8 40951 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA839 68 bytes

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