Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40be6d8cb0588388…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 77def1a44096f161a186acb198f7f1ee SHA-1: c7ddbe1c7b7aba7f46a6d27571f413d080bd2701 SHA-256: 40be6d8cb0588388efe13f56634d3d9b4be11feaaabd8b827b9bf8fc414733cd
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The presence of XFA forms and an embedded script suggests the document is designed to execute malicious code. The embedded script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, contributing to the malicious verdict.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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_00000359.bin
8f54769f90d9a845ac5407d15304ff20ad72ff0e0d598a508549fd387db79fec
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12336 bytes