Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d93622dbc7fc0d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 16471e57a63749dede76736d7836fb65 SHA-1: b5294d900f3ca82f25cbc6afcfe4153385c1eff7 SHA-256: 3d93622dbc7fc0d7297cba23f7730d85e3c1ac96bcc23124a37f4063cce9e8da
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 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 XFA forms and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests it's designed to execute embedded exploits. The ML classifier's high score and the specific ClamAV detection strongly indicate a malicious exploit delivery mechanism, likely for a second-stage 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
e47013b90203dcf86671c0c55f8a127b95574cc959cedf977b0521c89cfca77d
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1488 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).