Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b1ca3d6649980c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB
MD5: 68b7226c2e31f5c3a09377a853e1e122 SHA-1: 202bbe13ccdad4e63fc4faaefa7678a66eee85d8 SHA-256: 6b1ca3d6649980c28679108e7cc2d965c2831dd3de4167b77bef2258bef5aed6
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF utilizes XFA (XML Forms Architecture) and contains an embedded JavaScript payload. This script is heavily obfuscated but its structure suggests it is designed to download and execute a secondary malicious file. ClamAV detections further confirm the malicious nature of this PDF, identifying it as an exploit agent.

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_0000023e.bin
94cb3250beb061dfeb729f4f0d63f183b6c0d3ed9ced7cba0807910192d2cb4f
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23E 80301 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely