Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52aaec4e192852b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB
MD5: 44588ff7905c415da2cfdfb0e2a5d773 SHA-1: 1e7338c9fea25708e8dbc4e811f035a9e645bd78 SHA-256: 52aaec4e192852b886261be346998bc0890e6587af4e190b6f76664163d53eda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' strongly indicates this PDF file is malicious and exploits a known vulnerability. Several embedded files were extracted, suggesting a multi-stage attack. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts further supports the exploit delivery mechanism.

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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD5 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
58481460d0e5b9442c3b8f27ae56f7aa3969be756775de0d79c8d445a871b6f0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 689 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
69650a61091a018036679a3439cc6a018b6a91ebe9e0e3a6b36ceb04d6491a4f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x449 160 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
d4c44a5b08022542757eb1e6db01293be96a4b1b9a60a53893bcfcec579b62fb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x534 469 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x754 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
ccb9924b85bedd96965db0f817ba290cc04deb99f3a48455650dcf1f4e961195
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x85F 42896 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely