PDF malware analysis — malicious · 278b48394d507e04

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB

MD5: 7700271ebeea74c4682bee93a53a154c SHA-1: d46e46883757607bfda5cbe7f5dbabb4539ff8b2 SHA-256: 278b48394d507e043e52fd445515a95345366f4c7f427f486117f04802909672

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The critical ClamAV detections indicate this PDF file is malicious, specifically flagging it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious payload. The extracted URLs are benign or unknown and do not contribute to the maliciousness assessment.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `c6a781912ca83dbc699598d98946d24e71fd86b24e0d2d7460c840ff88b54c33`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	42740 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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