Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6af2d87bca68e4a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: e9fc5a68e8cb1cbb0a155fc3e5f811db SHA-1: a5dfc6919df0d93dfb08efa87cce4d5401757554 SHA-256: 6af2d87bca68e4a9fb34b67dac6a2efacd85ff122b7b84722539e428877c5c93
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains embedded executable scripts within an XFA form, a known technique for delivering exploits. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded scripts are too obfuscated to determine their exact function, but the overall pattern suggests a malicious PDF designed for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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/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
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
6b84cbca78898c42c396bd1bd75f477ceddfd8ca37a7091f345169ea94dfd605		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 687 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
b9dc770324ae2a66fd1d9c8b9605e3a9ddaae9d1311dffe002d37a59fdc6e4bc		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x447 183 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
3f8918d1fcfeb1496a5561aaf8259a5a931cf8c1239df9e3b0dee3bd64633267		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x549 363 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6FF 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
dd07e820d2e678089c6632877c39663d1f3312ef84db585cca7fc5340b678029		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x80A 40677 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA739 68 bytes

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