Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c3d51dcad48ed74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB Authoring application: 52-164-161-159-117-154-147-164-117-161-150-151-90-145-123-105-144-145-123-106-91-109-175-164-151-166-167-164-160-82-145-123-103-175-152-167-160-149-166-155-161-160-82-145-123-107-90-145-123-104-91-173 (via 1-154-119-162-107-152-161-116-125-97-97-97-97-97-169-115-115-115-115-116-115-115-115-115-115-115-115-115-115-115-115-115-131-115-115-115-115-115-115-115-115-139-170-117-115-133-155-115-153-139-115-97-)
MD5: 524ae5c1e5ac836329ffbc55c63766a0 SHA-1: fab031c0d8efdc5033462444ff3f3db87c4ba5eb SHA-256: 5c3d51dcad48ed746472f819268b1f6b60dcc611a8f6adeab65ba31375a2c94f
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious PDF identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962. It contains embedded files and scripts, and triggers heuristics related to XFA forms and embedded payloads, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities for client execution. The ML classifier also strongly flagged it as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.2/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x3972 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
b40a217a8d9b8d3671cc3874c550d30941b93ca6dde99995d43921dede579865
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x3A24 1183 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
8d7b9e9e6b294998e43f3e1ec3d3bc8a85e2d342f6df091631d8088d1f033f06
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x3C76 9120 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x43E1 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
ce4a3f07835c725838e55947d6b1f21771e0ad8084ee86d0890ecc12bd5231fd
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x44A3 2427 bytes
font_00_cff_off00004873.bin
062eede2d0cc5d3972869dc7e2f2f9f01d1d1b3756b715c8252f06948ce99ae2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x4873 1192 bytes