Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 667c00e3dcec7a27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 7443f41d5a7ab0009734718b3c3d98ea SHA-1: bf211931608d36cac2e2df063891d7644ea3adc9 SHA-256: 667c00e3dcec7a27944cce2dfc33837fab0894457e16d75c9d28dfaa4f2f226b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). It contains embedded script payloads and is flagged as an XFA form, indicating it is likely designed to exploit a PDF vulnerability for client execution. The embedded artifact also triggers a ClamAV detection, reinforcing its malicious nature.

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
e9bfc9cc5cebda63de3ffdc3315f04b45addbdecbab7f1ffc866a9898dc71481
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42682 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely