Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44f40113c7b8545f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 36ff93319b574559412ab5701c957e3d SHA-1: ecbafdf119e18e2878dae93a7a1282485d9e4a1c SHA-256: 44f40113c7b8545fa26d612a2973a15f59b44e3be38a498d1379440345c1f3f2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, as malicious. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file indicates an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' suggests a known exploit targeting PDF documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
9dd5f714bab85ade5a1e247e98330b16e1ce1fe8eb3bacfc4e027fb4f499a700
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42752 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely