Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22b585429f3be826…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB
MD5: 9da474780f032d160238c94e40280125 SHA-1: 25505c23e6343b95c6cbaac0d0049151b25ab0ec SHA-256: 22b585429f3be826a97ac381c45db7ca8d47fe5020e95fa81dc37431d401123f
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including critical ClamAV detections for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769' on an extracted artifact. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload further indicates malicious intent. The ML classifier also returned a very high probability of maliciousness. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://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_pdf_script_00000246.bin
128a7dca06a3de5f3081c6f912aa606f9c555ee0d31566ee6ee2176052edd335
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 94714 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely