Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ab6a2807a6c64ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB
MD5: 7c276f52fcaf9c2247b55eafff6f049d SHA-1: e68e020b6e05205796df6c6b59abf0e5bc21f216 SHA-256: 6ab6a2807a6c64acddfeb2d4e4ee6feb2a225e4c7d3f34e008f7282ac585eeae
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded JavaScript payload within an XFA form strongly suggests the script is designed to execute malicious code. While the script is obfuscated, its likely purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for malware delivery.

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
1c463640110e441b65c0c2ff60b0b3108b602c5b1bf40f0bb59dc2a5656aaa36
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 83929 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely