Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c847c3df225689c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 7ce913b7118cf612fd16fbbffd7fce2e SHA-1: e24cdd96cb1af631f47bb74170579c193d1f4f5c SHA-256: 5c847c3df225689c767dd300f46ffdeb90dba274f2a4db72887e6646c272bb34
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830, and a machine learning classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of an embedded file and XFA form suggests an exploit targeting PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is the likely payload.

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 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/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
b041d299951e1e73fd35ea26e20642c19ee8a3cbdcf5fbe8612c47e8dd3bb944		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42640 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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