PDF malware analysis — malicious · 46bca98f531c1ad6

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB

MD5: 84c60475718811c9749bd43a8f8c3f9d SHA-1: 0ab72c202aa06a9b9ff78da83e2ca03d2dc2be5a SHA-256: 46bca98f531c1ad621585a8597a1d8c9556f08d68e6b8f9ca3f9436e8ec638d5

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The critical ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' strongly indicates a malicious PDF exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to download and execute a secondary malicious artifact. The document body content appears to be obfuscated script fragments rather than user-readable text, reinforcing the exploit-driven nature of the file.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `4e596d9f66f2a1412c95402cab437be0695042c789c913dc785cb8ba161dabe4`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	46874 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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