Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ce1101960ef566a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.1 KB
MD5: 6deef5c42ca1fdb63b4464e47fcde5d7 SHA-1: 5f1385893d2d62cdc1ccb7cb14e60bd349a0480a SHA-256: 4ce1101960ef566a8e211b70208b2c25bdf5fe530b777c1727c18770a433b1b7
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA stager, a known technique for exploiting vulnerabilities in PDF readers. The 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962' ClamAV detection strongly suggests an exploit is present. While no scripts were directly extracted, the XFA stager likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload, indicated by the embedded URL. The exact nature of the payload and its delivery mechanism remain unclear without further analysis of the embedded files.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
  • XFA title base-26 eval stager high PDF_XFA_TITLE_BASE26_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads an encoded payload from the document title, builds event.target.eval and String.fromCharCode from string fragments, decodes base-26 character pairs, and evals the recovered stage. This is an exploit-kit staging pattern; the static bytes do not prove a specific CVE by themselves.
  • 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
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x2AB4 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2B66 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
d7f7bd6434fff4670f50233bfe5cf596fac9d4d44d97771942e495ed6801d5e8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2D7F 1949 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x3206 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x32B2 77 bytes