Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f7171d938dfd72b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: dd7288c832d9e3c45c7bdfaa316f9811 SHA-1: 69e6fda895721dde1a257708f46eb78f58b23e27 SHA-256: 3f7171d938dfd72bd938ffdeec7942291174d55af589bce0baab3cc904924c36
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV, which identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The presence of an embedded script payload and XFA form suggests an exploit is being leveraged. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the document's structure and may be used in conjunction with the exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
f958d7da9f503cdc276c382444f125d9edfe306c3fd8870e0fc52865ef1ec652
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14264 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely