PDF malware analysis — malicious · 41ac153a400b8e9f

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB

MD5: 4c30e094a62ff39910b2c601c6a90f3a SHA-1: 7b04b3146cb1e14c32455af0da3e6615445dd4fc SHA-256: 41ac153a400b8e9fb3f527b63b6855d27e2fcdf8716876f98e05aaf5a6218fc6

84 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962' strongly indicates a PDF exploit. The presence of embedded files and an AcroForm button with an action trigger further supports this. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is likely part of the exploit chain. The exploit likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
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
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
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-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x2BCA	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2C7C	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `faa63921e590ea6bc90ca48253be80b8e3600b93abfeb0f6b1a36c7ef4849973`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2E95	1796 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x32E0	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x338C	77 bytes

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