PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4ce1bbffe9246180

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.4 KB

MD5: e487512c626e83c2fd1568744eeb5299 SHA-1: 05a3824579f30dd2abd543dcb478584b64ca1add SHA-256: 4ce1bbffe9246180c4e08fb5dd2fd185608cd147ef2cd65b4c3a03eb3f777c23

116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it contains exploit code. The presence of embedded files and an embedded URL suggests a delivery mechanism for a secondary payload. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic and ClamAV detection strongly indicate the exploitation of a PDF vulnerability, likely to download and execute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x2BE3	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2C95	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `d49af98c55d3e65ec6464293af9aef7bbc76755592910bbd64ac795aa56b5c78`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2EAE	1798 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x32FA	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x33A6	77 bytes

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