Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38020ecb90d430c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: c48992dcd73f47d1aae6d30f5e615940 SHA-1: 442134dcd279fcd25c40cfc4a9a3999ec29a0578 SHA-256: 38020ecb90d430c1f6512eb7d5fbfbbe76839ae01af715c8a5278852394a4333
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating it contains malicious content. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV' heuristics suggest the PDF contains an embedded script or exploit designed to execute malicious code. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' further supports this. The embedded file and script payload point towards a downloader or exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
d607123d49f555854cea55704cd223a0efafa2a423f1fd15fbb4e70b4bacd6cd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42660 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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