Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5216667871ef30f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB
MD5: c8c6c87a4948df49db26760fb3907fbe SHA-1: b1bd66ce25fccc6a889c7915a76786b857132ae7 SHA-256: 5216667871ef30f5103df656577ef8b9cdf7e667ba4327efdf22f9f856c9729d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836). It contains embedded files and scripts, indicating it's designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests an exploit targeting PDF parsing or rendering vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • 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
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
a7c8ca46525e147d62beb5dc989ab7c165d1a961319c35b2f30dda5ecb1b4eb3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 687 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45C 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
a703408a5c59289d122e585a3616cf4f26fd48b87dffbfb6d9b15e760c1ed2ed
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x504 462 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x71D 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
96999bb3c2421ecfcd24230bb1dce9401a78b136db77664907ea451795c7be3b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8EF 41118 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA9D7 147 bytes