Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 304aa0bd08e9a940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: ea4ff50b0eabfff715060779a82056b6 SHA-1: 290866b25a449eb9769919897e3895dc8c3c1130 SHA-256: 304aa0bd08e9a9400492d4ea8371e0ca395f1f9f761440a3669cb4ea49f809b2
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874) and a machine learning classifier. It contains an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger, indicating exploitability. An embedded, decompressed PDF stream was also flagged as suspicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing content, suggesting the primary purpose is exploit delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
ab0abd9d66194e5b4ad0db79c9f7167015a21a840a5568e26280d79545d3f68e
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1448 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).