Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28992bd81835d12f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB
MD5: b27bc0241f32ae1f3261dbcb3776e83a SHA-1: 0ea80616e54bf81ab4e59f61c0d27a63fcdd85e4 SHA-256: 28992bd81835d12f1b1593f2c04ae1115e8c8bcf103267df1fa10c4ecbdad25c
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and an embedded script payload, which is flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script is likely responsible for delivering the exploit, as indicated by the ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_0000026c.bin
d9c8d05bc868572936d60cf1282d72b9e8e2ce4c9afa2965511ec46a30f14153
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x26C 38006 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely