Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e9ae1e67fa25231…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 93d126b4ae822b0fb26ea2090294f9e5 SHA-1: 6065adff591c126731d41e290a37b927767efb07 SHA-256: 3e9ae1e67fa252319fc0f019b654ed09d283bbfef73269a1f363a91f68b65351
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830, indicating it exploits a known PDF vulnerability. An embedded script payload was detected within a PDF stream, suggesting it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which are often targeted by PDF exploits.

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
021fb7ba0ac16c5fb5b1797eba1126ddfcbc4f355754f8091c04e01da24023d9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43067 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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