Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6098be7fb4057790…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: ca5d4f236313f94128e7c8f3e6fa121c SHA-1: dbe6ccccd4b5c95ee133a1ff43be4277bbf0d873 SHA-256: 6098be7fb40577908b97d2fdc9997f3e5c9c1973b20eb770ffdeff32f3474f66
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830, and a machine learning classifier also assigned a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads suggests an exploit is being used to execute code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. No specific family could be identified.

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
be7713b0e012dede002f5d1c658e01ce162d00f6abe87d479d25d2e3c40a1e9f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43137 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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