Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b962e9bfa105c49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: e576190bbcba6175469a48aab147a5b9 SHA-1: b4c6bd230e671b78d30d7de23bdefc0419928bca SHA-256: 5b962e9bfa105c4908ad54b69d07ccea7f83cbef2f378cd1a18f71fa474ab909
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834'. The ML classifier also indicates a high probability of maliciousness. The embedded artifacts suggest the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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 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 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://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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
b242a987d7bdc2043ae0cb9ce18cf71f6f0773b366c84eed0d0aa6bdc0e9a4b2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 688 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1c5b7971dff586207e8235b49916e2677297f244f218ae7d19c6ac9623332af8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45D 100 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
9bd1f90123ba7e84e7d1bd2c65567a4a6cc39ce860fb7b3469fa428c3d1258ef
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50C 562 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x789 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
e6be9997bb41db7b86442d26b300edde9cc4bcd5c237dd4d8cb2c3d95c7e46b2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x894 40557 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
03172373f36e220deaea3baf69186e2a8bef99633879227f39b2a0b4510201ee
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA74B 138 bytes