Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64ca6d4c452513f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: fb3238489b589d75efa5ddc1a26de77b SHA-1: 5f885f8d95c63d08ff935bb5aa24644488847b14 SHA-256: 64ca6d4c452513f1226e733c411854defee26f76a6574cfc113632079ab18a3d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains embedded scripts and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834'. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded content is likely designed to exploit a client vulnerability for execution, and the presence of embedded files suggests a downloader or dropper functionality.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • 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 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
03308c5a1b1888772ac21ec8b5d751505f71ac3e30f4b4d94c078fc11b3c82a5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 690 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1870a8c90be73ebe36ae508f57c55ef58407515a4ad8c7e867914369cf2923c9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45F 99 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
d2f1d55aa4e9f7443c260aca34990d77db9a76d7063f4d3ec166df419464ee82
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50D 576 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x798 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
aaeeebb940fac43febb6b142583dd27b7ebfe6ea8fd6a378cbc0520db7b41cff
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8A3 40898 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8AF 68 bytes