Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c08c93ff36f0afa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB
MD5: 0894f7af23b41d937590886e9403eb45 SHA-1: 038ee5478a89a2270c871921cccbabe0bd133f62 SHA-256: 3c08c93ff36f0afa12d95e8ac613131cefb8df3f5a43c01177d31640a0d8a769
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple heuristic firings including critical ClamAV detections. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, although its specific actions are not detailed in the provided evidence. The presence of XFA suggests a potential exploit targeting PDF reader vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://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_pdf_script_00000246.bin
e1ea4761eaaf9ccc5f58c27bfbdd9712457dc1f98b723f8603da3726933de2a3		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102156 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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