Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ceec02906c237bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 154eb5a5a5b879294622909ae90170df SHA-1: 09db6ae1c298665daab3b9ba556d640f94fa2039 SHA-256: 5ceec02906c237bc5abd348bcee1078114b47ad9ccef977dd61cd80e9053b961
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. Heuristics indicate the presence of XFA forms and AcroForm buttons with action triggers, common vectors for PDF exploits. The embedded artifact 'stream_001_off000008ed.bin' likely contains the exploit code. While no specific URLs or scripts were extracted, the exploit's nature suggests it aims to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
521884daf092fde575b3b8f8daf9d616e1798182e93d7d042b731fd5fa40b952		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1467 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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