Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57f64f633ffeb265…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 3163a278c22e0410d89f3fe238e30b53 SHA-1: 660736056676068ff8a6e71b0346a1e576d8f649 SHA-256: 57f64f633ffeb2657c9ea50883ad1b294f7071e5efa036961f11e2b1152eabf4
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and also detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. The presence of an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an attempt to execute embedded code or exploit a vulnerability. The ML classifier's high output score and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of a PDF reader vulnerability to download and execute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
c5f967ab8fcf874268c7c3d71c0a7595b61b7c57ce916d957e604ab3ea82f89a
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1386 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).