Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d1196b9440bca27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.9 KB
MD5: 761a5ada480d6ccfbcc59799359dcc45 SHA-1: 18f128137f1002dd97bfe7f08531b63f5cabd913 SHA-256: 6d1196b9440bca278a431a48cf34f243e408962d1275dced00b40b7fb0b33a91
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with JavaScript, flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious. ClamAV detections indicate it's an exploit agent. The embedded script likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, leveraging the XFA form's capabilities for execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789
  • 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://www.x&#102;a.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000325.bin
bae86b84e4bc404d127e7c0bbdff43ea49d26b9e63cfba8be39f49776a7e89ef
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x325 18673 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely