Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bf3047aac0fecca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: 879ed20b31b8a68ec30bfd2e2deffa47 SHA-1: 8a4b4dd339413a829cb63dfaa6048f6e9afdb23e SHA-256: 3bf3047aac0feccaebe707e26378b9c7d9cba2862b4eeca7f3f44b1d7f3807c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded scripts and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The embedded script payload is likely responsible for executing the malicious functionality. The document body content appears to be obfuscated script fragments rather than user-readable text, further indicating a malicious intent.

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
ac6e4c17c725a365e896ec322f130bf48eea0cb0468b265678424df71da60870
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43006 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely