Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24fd74118478c7e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 53886d9aeeef2ee4a2d23e36594f9d91 SHA-1: 68cab0ed0dc621c284703965586dfb52aae8cde6 SHA-256: 24fd74118478c7e3730838ea3516e0d86f33b3344d216e75224b937cf730bf90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836' on both the main file and an extracted artifact strongly indicates a malicious PDF exploit. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The exact nature of the payload is not discernible from the provided evidence.

Heuristics 6

  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • 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
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
d8bf209df925551dd0aa4b42a34d338da57307fd294744be28d8a5f1aa878d1f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 683 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x458 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
ea6b7ed6df53b143658b65a01fa1da28b8a8d9289c01cc44fe7e5ce28436b68d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x500 411 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6E6 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
b5a1f08abb751125bf538217a6407e935cc5db40b2608aa3ccc5637c9f43eebf
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8B8 40796 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA85E 147 bytes