Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32a9028c6c14ff4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.9 KB
MD5: f374f253c2585944651501ebfa9720cc SHA-1: d9849d26f06791fec99cf5dfc77155b597550e47 SHA-256: 32a9028c6c14ff4e4b7cea40b8bc76a4c9ac432014ace9679403d9d021298973
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and confirmed by ML classification and ClamAV detection. The ML classifier output of 0.999994 strongly suggests malicious intent. The embedded script is likely responsible for delivering the malicious payload, as suggested by the ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin
1e7382111d897be174ad707a736a8ec1fef03236ebc2c67c925353a93813b91e
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12506 bytes