Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2314a937815a45de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB
MD5: 4f13ad498863f4171e81e67aa02fc7c2 SHA-1: dee9d0aa76ee347cd11c56329a4455b320153f74 SHA-256: 2314a937815a45de4ce8e7fcd016fa935eff008027e6ca166029546133a4642a
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. ClamAV detections (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809) confirm its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although its exact functionality is obscured by the PDF structure. The presence of an XFA form further suggests a complex, potentially exploit-driven document.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
b9ced11ca5441ec3d31fc392f4be60643fbf7c5eff54c702e6aa4970c1097e82
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14306 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely