Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6115e5a4cd9146bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB
MD5: 58f4defda1861d08753a048258ac5236 SHA-1: c7e23daa9a1018b9a10b6a79136c97c9cf0b77c3 SHA-256: 6115e5a4cd9146bd898ed0e3eaa4c8671d9851e96e5990cd2021661a218da08a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating exploitation. It contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts points towards JavaScript execution for exploitation.

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
33e511c4e8ed4dc65748d903c926761986d9846a926b8ca655a18a3a437cb42f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42465 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely