Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29399e84f24b3f1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB
MD5: 91c96e43cbe26766fe1d9c20d1b6ead8 SHA-1: df026456891c261825ea3075663f74330baac9bf SHA-256: 29399e84f24b3f1ff416b67a1dbbe7e1311ee3d4adcd4528d0ef2d893ba9f62a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded content and a script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the delivered payload.

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
022e88b120d7da444b12e60591544a00533c75c3e0538f02f696ab34aa56e5b1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42585 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely