Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4be220b274cacc36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 4634471675289c9ac55de79d87096057 SHA-1: 3212ee7e58299e0552c76f502aab0d4e624b0a04 SHA-256: 4be220b274cacc3690428cdf54d55313187ba11991caa4db6e1ca10fb9926380
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV heuristic firings indicate this PDF is malicious and contains an embedded script payload. The embedded file, detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830, is likely the exploit mechanism. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code, suggesting it is designed to execute the embedded payload upon opening.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
2d87803637627bf13824879050d9c46a305c517a9b4ee97ceb21c3396b0b71d4		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42616 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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