Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58ab4c896ccff2d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: f1ba435dd89a05edb4e8b0344272864e SHA-1: baadf6dc21e7460706c8d57a67121266b562eef7 SHA-256: 58ab4c896ccff2d223fc826bd51e344e5c75c275ca7fcae481999572e9b189e0
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV' heuristics suggest that the PDF contains and delivers an embedded malicious script or file. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports the malicious nature of the document.

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
4a5bdfa3b83b4b73aa361b4e5056a73c05ebec06df5e4a75c04694bdf67d72e8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42748 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely