Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6765130675bd533a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB
MD5: 8b9ed9ed68076cf1260f9a74d8e499c6 SHA-1: a7c5b1d0c2e6f0525b2d547e9bf81f1259a3d65f SHA-256: 6765130675bd533a923a7b3d589103ac84e570b15bf5aad0c2f7346a5a8d12ad
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834, and a machine learning classifier also flagged it with high confidence. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like XFA forms and embedded script payloads indicates an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader. The embedded artifacts suggest the delivery of a secondary malicious payload.

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
607722525c30bfe4067cd4460dae4de8682a8b696b9c915e63d65c07efb42478
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 690 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
1c5b7971dff586207e8235b49916e2677297f244f218ae7d19c6ac9623332af8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x45F 100 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
a8e143a5cae6d035c33d50b98b5c9dc4ca2f415c5aa5b225d68d5eed399ce02c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x50E 583 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x7A0 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
4a470d4016a57f79258d070e2a15d1762c5f1ad299680ded9ca26963a75c211e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8AB 40946 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36834
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
03172373f36e220deaea3baf69186e2a8bef99633879227f39b2a0b4510201ee
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8E7 138 bytes