Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67af7366958b1beb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: 07651680a96462cd9fabe9638a2f179d SHA-1: 1b7d99504e31e534f2bb258b5000365921b25fa7 SHA-256: 67af7366958b1beb2c956c5e2ef771ffb68700383d24aabdc12db4eacdb79dc8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the presence of embedded artifacts. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830 strongly suggests exploitation of a known vulnerability for client execution. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload from the embedded file.

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
67fa2bb64236f86b0c8a8ab1fc0d814be04be8da2178400652b6580cebb07dc3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42726 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely