Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29a2687317186070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB
MD5: 6e0d55a15fe85edbea06e83efa6702bf SHA-1: 7a1c9e81ac24df9edd6586b5f49dbb52cb2e0b09 SHA-256: 29a2687317186070b68ec3f42f682dc39ad791a0cfb3605a496bce48fc098444
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with multiple critical detections, specifically 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769' on an extracted artifact. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload within the PDF stream indicates a likely exploit attempt. The embedded URLs are confirmed benign or unknown, providing no further IOCs.

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/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000246.bin
fe517b713cec0a58e945d88ef1a5e5dc219b64ab3a8eb54292d2582aad45a519
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 84199 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely