Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 513a46630d1fb609…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB
MD5: 27d4d1a256ce13dd5b7d88f22996e119 SHA-1: 73bbe5d8c67cef3b853fbea64ac0f94c956c0fb3 SHA-256: 513a46630d1fb6090271fce71b7d12ab3a90647caed29ab1ab5da17c3c201d5e
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file strongly suggests it's designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious artifact. The embedded artifact itself was also flagged by ClamAV.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
a32cdc3cd726ee5d9ff5966cbf4b177a213653898b6c2f70e5b608e2e6a72b01
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42556 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely