Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bdf1ab52212167a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: db2a1c15267038d848e503bdd86d05fd SHA-1: 94f56621ab698417d770e4859bcd454b345ea74f SHA-256: 5bdf1ab52212167aa99a3ae9c23821b3e9948ba75bb8b8ed5af25d4f3fc4fb00
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a client-side vulnerability for execution. Several embedded files were extracted, and the presence of PDF-specific heuristics like XFA forms and embedded scripts suggests a complex exploit chain. The primary IOC is the ClamAV detection signature.

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
e6bbd3c385258731cc714fdde2040c5cfe3f73d42e135ef6ba9102845362725a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 690 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45F 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
8fdd827dc113e80267b1bfa4171760b1dc4e54bea9e3dee1916922bed8fea2d8		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50D 581 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x79D 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
01d5c3297342e34328006b98aed34b7bcdf4f3d0a15dc10bdadbf991ee0e55df		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8A8 40974 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA900 68 bytes

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