Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6472cb655a8aee29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB
MD5: d72487a67c7f1bf66f13086f8267224e SHA-1: 80b25df5a7871d93add8f111e70c199bcd964249 SHA-256: 6472cb655a8aee2922758b1e68b1ba58ec6c1a5b506c5d9f0d8bedd859bcbf76
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload within an XFA form, a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities. ClamAV detections indicate this is a known exploit, likely Pdf.Exploit.Agent. The embedded script is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The benign URLs present are likely decoys or standard XFA schema references.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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.
  • 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_pdf_script_00000246.bin
7a85f00d61883e62a199a7733d1bc8d82f6aad7e9ad393ecbbaaf0504880d9bb
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 102156 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely