Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31e537e588c162c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB
MD5: a970c490ac6fa1b9cfe4f80797095318 SHA-1: 6af1672fb3759f19cdf59eeed925b32a1174c5e8 SHA-256: 31e537e588c162c96ce748c48153f2753eb95e5e0ff99345389c94dbac1c80e2
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-severity heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, indicating it is a malicious exploit. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload suggests it is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The embedded artifact 'embedded_pdf_script_00000246.bin' is likely the malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
7806c10159551112a7b3574058c1478baac0304b41cbf0f75d65f52bc32b26f4
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 94992 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely