Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47be5ccd4a532600…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB
MD5: 56d59e7c37b412e645a8d27ddcc4e96a SHA-1: 2b4f06914500832f58077005e9e1173af2ad491f SHA-256: 47be5ccd4a53260003e249a6460e1f9bd643dcb6b903909fcfed02e3171d28ee
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and an embedded script payload, strongly indicating malicious intent. ClamAV detections confirm this, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts points towards a common PDF-based exploit delivery technique.

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_00000246.bin
4473d4869853f1cb71a01ac72e1dd69cf96381546e35dad74153433bc8378495		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 95092 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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