Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a151ee78312e30e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 7edb0706e50f6717c4910967560e9cab SHA-1: a3272e084385785ca04cae36ee8fe9ad293bda67 SHA-256: 3a151ee78312e30ead8d551646f586318defc346e5f17c82e8c69af035115d7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830, indicating it contains an exploit. Heuristics confirm the presence of an embedded script payload within a PDF stream, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. The embedded file artifact further supports the delivery of a secondary payload.

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
9c62a49b48f66a156f21d80d360729137d5c2a667652eac87e913150d2350ea4		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42747 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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