Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 300fbbdaaecd992a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: 32f12d9d62073504b1f63240763ad8e9 SHA-1: 71ceb0f0be6c2b0cbd8fd527ef942284dfa0231e SHA-256: 300fbbdaaecd992a6ea965f573fdeac9542f3d6221720d35169223de4d07bd50
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834, indicating it exploits a known PDF vulnerability. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. Several embedded files were extracted, suggesting a multi-stage attack. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like content, likely part of the exploit mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
49f9efa47ac1c7277abe37f8c89f3d2a3fed40f8dc7997303dd47dc915c9986c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 684 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x459 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
6da263165d743594f7d7b6fd85be1c222dfefacafbef40632c9f643d2d6b8e21
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x507 581 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x797 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
cb6cf5f86c4069ac7e6b7baa1d37c152e9887fb6bfe1333d62f3f5c255dc63df
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8A2 40636 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA7A8 68 bytes