Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34e63a1c414f5a0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 7695a32557d71b6038f242905c6d7ff1 SHA-1: 6ab2a736256d05e084422fa4b0184390e7954183 SHA-256: 34e63a1c414f5a0c9fee1348fc5978177ab6f89bd18b4ee57028fbde21e65d70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script content and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The embedded script payload and the presence of an embedded file suggest the document is a lure to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The specific exploit targeted is not detailed in the provided heuristics.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
  • 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/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_file_obj0008.bin
7eb1dfb3b3d45124d828f626a95ba256a1d7d9ad62bbbe2703fdb4e5e4480d55
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42621 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely