Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2252824a5fbd5ef8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 99dd009bd9cdc1fd3cce683a51e7977d SHA-1: bd69c1dedd1f09d54799cb25df1ea595dd503bd4 SHA-256: 2252824a5fbd5ef815bd6151b8373e31b1ff98fdd028ed4de1fe64c11d877051
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The ML classifier also returned a very high probability of maliciousness. The document body content is highly obfuscated and appears to be part of the exploit mechanism rather than user-facing text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
3bfc4630ba79602730448bc8aefb5d254d2ea27c331f66c97e564aa49a507128		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43123 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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