Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ef4c8fa1905e127…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB
MD5: ae27cd7f9580c9dadd07c0655d1503e2 SHA-1: 64bbc876eeb2383978faddedf79365b85420fbc0 SHA-256: 5ef4c8fa1905e127689073b4753cd451b12cae6d7faa2174f11b13d9b524950d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. It contains embedded script content, suggesting an attempt to exploit a PDF vulnerability for client execution. The embedded script is obfuscated, making its precise actions difficult to determine, but its presence strongly indicates malicious intent.

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
c497b3b728bb86f2762eeee5b01df0fae498fff3c9130f67df1625061a9e7f8f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43259 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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