Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba508dad271b343…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: 3d4b7074f47b15f53605e52cb39cf351 SHA-1: 9376ce4d638655cb641b7cc4ea453715588ae1c1 SHA-256: 4ba508dad271b34390c5d6aff7c8fb25ca12a3a932b01b98c20b7d4bb21f41c8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript/VBScript

The PDF file contains a risky executable script within an XFA form, as indicated by multiple high and critical heuristic firings. ClamAV detection confirms this as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The script is likely designed to exploit this vulnerability and deliver a secondary payload, though the exact mechanism is obscured by the PDF structure and embedded artifacts. The embedded URLs are related to XFA schema and are confirmed benign.

Heuristics 7

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • 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
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
63dd8d337c8586283d56b4581b9bb0678c6b361cec5c29680f1eedb1b5dfa300		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 687 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
65e0cd26724bbac83c6001dfbee5727d8d7dc958f364f02a819dd2cf25ba393a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x447 160 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
34d6831b1471bf8a15c31d93c3268f003b97558ab38863fd2ea3b9c82cf0a87f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x532 432 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x72D 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
5e191dab41094ccdb00cef8dd910122c093296a4f333909361554814cc1dd7c9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x838 41050 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
03172373f36e220deaea3baf69186e2a8bef99633879227f39b2a0b4510201ee		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8DC 138 bytes

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