Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3017a55006edd131…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: 4c9761d32d25a64f9a1bd7d1bbe5dff6 SHA-1: a9776873216cd80a7f7a045e178bbf824689c43e SHA-256: 3017a55006edd131655aee4216197ed5b41aec3745337d95471d02a716784e80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The embedded artifacts and XFA form suggest a complex delivery mechanism for a malicious payload. The primary IOC is the ClamAV detection signature.

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
bbf182d8a55bc4971510e12e63e6d70a77a53f985f196bbb708100fbd46e1fb0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 689 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1c5b7971dff586207e8235b49916e2677297f244f218ae7d19c6ac9623332af8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45E 100 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
046cba1dca8608e119cab5bf7bb330ce82dbdbeabf3cd6e3cbcdc41fa3b56d11
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50D 550 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x77E 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
f6b769624d59c29410b2bc30dadebb8f8d5bb0948b2ab29c3c9d30e294f57203
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x889 40716 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA7DF 147 bytes