Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 435899b2879d09ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 847fef69e5373fdd2200aba6cc85f68a SHA-1: cb6caf94649894a40c45a717f5338328c49ab7b7 SHA-256: 435899b2879d09eed5682e1f853493f9c0200ac51f70d597e1bce61cf4dc0b4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic firings, specifically 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830', indicate the presence of a known PDF exploit. The embedded file and script payload heuristics further support this, suggesting the PDF is designed to execute malicious code. The embedded script, while obfuscated, appears to be involved in the payload delivery mechanism.

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
969897f40c038695655b298cba7b30104038d0e90551ff42ca558ba9758eacef
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42718 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely