Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34f6357f6ecca1ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: 9e47ec6afeda7438f566c8ec7510a9f4 SHA-1: 4c90174a315af2f192bad742d4aa65b34565f89c SHA-256: 34f6357f6ecca1ac4775b1936c5821cc5154bdbf8ec21776b354dd966f669fd7
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and utilizes XFA forms, both flagged as malicious by heuristics. ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as indicated by the ML classifier's high confidence score. The presence of an embedded URL suggests a delivery mechanism for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789
  • 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://www.x&#102;a.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000325.bin
24209e14196aefdb62198a4a0de234dc162939f57308c7dbdfac342b0ecd5fa2
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x325 18009 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely