Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b242fd15603b6ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB
MD5: 8b511134c624e7347dda944a129aa91a SHA-1: 8dd33d3c48b42169324fa84c98f552b9fbb9aa8b SHA-256: 4b242fd15603b6ae6110d8c2579b764e76037f0c80fe6283b9a63247f19c78a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detections indicate this PDF file is malicious, specifically identified as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836'. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files strongly suggests that this document is designed to exploit a vulnerability within PDF viewers to execute malicious code. The embedded artifacts are likely part of the exploit chain or the delivered payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
685ec00ba8d1e3a207e91ad1ae9b8c5e3cbc4f5473feab31f711c3ce0e99d74b		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 681 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x456 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
38e8f12105e528ab1ad92a20be9ed1af1f34aae2d042863a0282a96c6ea8ebe7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x4FE 406 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6DF 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
3d578d89c4fdc20394c71ca19d29575475c471c87aef60ed23e3fad55b43ac88		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8B1 41595 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xAB76 147 bytes

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