Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d4976d5b056dbac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB
MD5: 224344e38532e017ec47416ac6af33cf SHA-1: 7ec2fbe7b22c715c7b2a3e8fa164f2cea80724ae SHA-256: 6d4976d5b056dbac1bcfc83459421b2193f14144f4faf89e16321cbd1dd52d0d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics, including ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830', indicating it contains an exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports its malicious nature. The sample likely exploits a client-side vulnerability to execute a secondary payload, consistent with a phishing attachment delivery.

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
b746cdff7b8d2fe53c70920a1ed7589ba37a16fb0d30361603d9614104d0ee69
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43354 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely