Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33eb5b6c8833ba2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB
MD5: 801c5b6967b7134a0c753444a89dd167 SHA-1: bfc4a68e023fe1a85e9997ca7ddd47047f7a497a SHA-256: 33eb5b6c8833ba2fc8ec5ea98316f9a240fd2714ef7ad1a876729ae309fa019e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836, and an ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. It contains embedded scripts and files, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader to execute a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts suggests a complex exploit chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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 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 script payload in PDF stream low 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 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://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • 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
d8bf209df925551dd0aa4b42a34d338da57307fd294744be28d8a5f1aa878d1f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 683 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x458 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
d02dab92f0d39ff3f16c8560eb6f452ea6aaf7c624713d952dfa769129098773		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x500 414 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6E9 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
350a2b28fea1ea3265298a31ff5caf0d7885610f7a9977702b87c650a64c061a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8BB 40991 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA924 147 bytes

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