Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e7d448c8f47b09e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB
MD5: 3f680270f96fabf23a83a9ed64bd57c8 SHA-1: 6840c49722616e6cdb20939a672210d6c6d875b7 SHA-256: 2e7d448c8f47b09e368c96337d4b76ed5020122e0d2c01c9a48a3157d72ac4cf
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document contains embedded script content, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. ClamAV detections (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769) confirm its malicious nature. The XFA form suggests a potential for exploiting vulnerabilities within Adobe's XML Forms Architecture. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

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
75bce53c995a6824263e4a85abd8694c31344293f94445b5b0b7ce726ad15b22
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 95636 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely