Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b45c92cc03970e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: d4211f2693e039121e7070aada2bf460 SHA-1: 08a3d647eaaee1d49ef282aae86a9a9a2ace20c6 SHA-256: 3b45c92cc03970e6302c5c8ebbb49fdbe885ec0b1e4639671e32cff51d39301e
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and also detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. The presence of an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The ML classifier's high score and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate that this file is malicious and likely attempts to exploit a known PDF vulnerability to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
289dd9819e868d33c1309647bc6aab09e4fb581626c437c19b0b13bd6ef27d59
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1418 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).