Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b6c6390dda7125f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: b47f05685a15771869dbe32d9dc8a5bc SHA-1: 040dcb8efbd8a9c0e1e6996072d3aa20c322ee67 SHA-256: 5b6c6390dda7125f1ad10ea17f17537e85d6a464f37c2000ac0756cd6c91f8c3
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF utilizes XFA (XML Forms Architecture) and contains an embedded JavaScript payload. Heuristics indicate this is a malicious PDF, likely exploiting vulnerabilities within the XFA processing to execute the embedded script. The script's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload, as suggested by the embedded URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789
  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream low 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 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.x&#102;a.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000325.bin
e1b247a31f4323865fb19c40a28a182e8a7c882fc97756633f0a4509ba5ad5a6
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x325 18032 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely