Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a5ac56dfd26d5c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: 0e6e4e17d308142815799d01b635728f SHA-1: 992e12aab1976f7d223026af0a717330b5b23624 SHA-256: 2a5ac56dfd26d5c8bcb03617f713ac5af6379e1026caead001fb4bc62915d19a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious PDF exploiting a known vulnerability (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). An embedded script payload was also identified, suggesting the PDF is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which are often associated with PDF exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
e5acb4e81d62f03afe6d86d379f0101c280ebc46d04b141b9e256a12b1009a2f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42882 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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