Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4957974642a6738b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.6 KB
MD5: 2dbc322f08e6fc28830c0c8186e033be SHA-1: 7e60f99f2549d91eaf700863fc53ff617fb3848a SHA-256: 4957974642a6738b831980f1d8f52eff8cd6cd25c77952ab99dc4cf3099b2abb
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded script payload and was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. ClamAV specifically identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and an extracted artifact as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The presence of an XFA form suggests a potential exploit vector. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
7609a739ab826b949a1be9259c36508133eb4e320e86ae38f3be0b083f0c8cd6
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 18298 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely