PDF malware analysis — malicious · 55143afb512e3938

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.1 KB

MD5: fdca70eac0e8e242e4473a38852107a8 SHA-1: d271f1d356611230ecf221dc133de0a370b30b19 SHA-256: 55143afb512e393892a0d2bbd2d05214e754a953d81af126141bb0def40f7dcb

114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The critical ClamAV detection and high ML classifier score indicate this PDF is malicious. The presence of an embedded file and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an exploit is present. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is suspicious in context. The PDF likely exploits a vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the embedded file objects and the general nature of Pdf.Exploit.Agent detections.

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 0x26E5	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2797	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `e7851af5e081c5f5c213de29bdc9f7a06a2e391a781bf5a9853e28c7c369149e`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x29B0	1735 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2D9C	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2E48	77 bytes

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