PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3709edc0d153c612

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB

MD5: b6836ccd2e8c01be9704e89502e572f2 SHA-1: 48d219c40337aafb29b069f60782de3b2ce85501 SHA-256: 3709edc0d153c612624da4af2b2f89c3b44be28307d4c8d9f8fa0ff855047423

178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detections, indicating it is malicious. The presence of an embedded script payload and XFA form suggests an exploit attempt. The embedded artifact 'embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin' likely contains the malicious code responsible for the exploit, and the ClamAV detections 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809' further confirm its malicious nature. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
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.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin` `93b5133122b329d6cb820a3b1d20e052f95ead10072de91cba1866ae0815ad39`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329	14237 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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