Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27e557b008a5a508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: 5771f4375b11580c71cf29d9a69713e2 SHA-1: cc5916f5cb9573b5379d207e51961d9d8f4741f3 SHA-256: 27e557b008a5a508ee70da579a793d50a7e6db1b16323b698400c5e4713e0a57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious artifact. The embedded URLs are benign or unknown, and no document body text was available for analysis.

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
e9d49233170513a3e42c964a04a8f82770265fb5be4385ef6258d1411beac1e2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43174 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely