PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2f94e6926a13bda9

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.6 KB

MD5: 1dcd95626a4076cd079283818a415c7a SHA-1: ab524d2dc1438fe47f5e0fece55f31a2b60d52b6 SHA-256: 2f94e6926a13bda95eaee58adc58e3264826fcc7cc24ffb8dfa84f168a044b13

116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962' and a high ML score indicating maliciousness. The presence of embedded files and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an exploit attempt. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, could be part of a larger attack chain. The ML classifier's high confidence and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and likely download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 5

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
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
AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON

PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x28FB	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x29AD	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `cc9bf9b4bff960fcc875cced8773f18df40c06e7a9fe9a44ed7dafd435f6cc72`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2BC6	1866 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x301E	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x30CA	77 bytes

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