Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 439d3d9617fb2517…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB
MD5: 1cf77c8ca9d38a3a59db7fc6c7c6ce85 SHA-1: 53f2e2b828c24623328a9598456115c257604e0e SHA-256: 439d3d9617fb2517bca004c156d1f46d7d68b666bdf4724674a4e99422bcb0f7
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple heuristic firings including critical ClamAV detections. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded script is likely responsible for delivering the malicious payload, although its specific actions are not detailed in the provided evidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://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_pdf_script_0000023e.bin
cc39fbd19f25ba3ad522d0bbf5314cad5965f480f91c4338e0e4c77b4cfec698
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23E 80469 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely