Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b944d942b981d9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB
MD5: fe0aaedcb79919f963417add5bc4e97c SHA-1: a5e9b6dc660ec23492f324afbca6b314427387c4 SHA-256: 2b944d942b981d9e996def585061ab519299e7a0d7e0e334084b905f5edf02e7
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings including ClamAV detections. The embedded script is likely responsible for delivering a secondary payload. The specific exploit and delivery mechanism are not fully detailed, leading to an unknown family classification.

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
1c4b617c2f4ef9bade870cbeb1992e2261fb5dbddc6cdee813d777db2b56d154
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 95636 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely