Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 206009548726888d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB
MD5: d1f7a587f068ec552bad6cde4a9b22d4 SHA-1: eb8670f7a37c5104488e6cd6cb7b1c9a23d182c3 SHA-256: 206009548726888d4d14fe97a4cfdc59275170e6128e658e72502b987022867b
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF document contains embedded executable scripts within XFA forms, a technique commonly used to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver malicious payloads. ClamAV detections confirm the presence of a known exploit, 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836', indicating the file's malicious nature. The embedded scripts are likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage 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
750cf85f1194ead89100249256b6606c05a29337a85922790375af557a9ccaf7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 690 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
cb5c2c085f74f108ea1568913da707c0f028f63f96dbe60adbaae8231243e227
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x44A 157 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
5098ad0bdb0b35b680024c24fae2600d08dc290db33b380f0551772e07427cb5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x532 341 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6D2 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
18811a2050f5c0d820ad618f2f6d4f8aa2490c9c0b83c0e4fdfa906202a00785
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x7DD 40560 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 0xA697 68 bytes