Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 630c8b871afb3828…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 60997c27bcaeb9247de82e0622a6815e SHA-1: 482505d5ccdbaaebf9360ab2c217f5498eea3793 SHA-256: 630c8b871afb3828bbb73bab5d2de2c995cd74ee4f96a395723795cc36380eab
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. It contains an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger, indicative of exploit attempts within PDF documents. The ML classifier output of 0.999296 strongly suggests malicious intent, likely involving exploitation for client execution.

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
5cb0dde0400b17dd3c1f379c8edef7a5b306854b13c6a03e371f18647bae3e29
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1446 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).