Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7146422abb258b24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: d4e7bf36cf324cf9d075f0cee6765626 SHA-1: 0140647d2e26fa7b881062ef3e2c4c93e36bdc6a SHA-256: 7146422abb258b240c8f0d2fe895e732a0bbe0f32b6b8b2c268fb14733789e95
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains XFA form elements and an AcroForm button with an action trigger, indicating potential exploitability. The embedded artifact 'stream_001_off000008ed.bin' likely contains the exploit code. The detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874' suggests it's a known exploit targeting PDF vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
4bf338d3f63680239f1a6d6c773778dfdc3df28b222ab885c05d9700f61ab11f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1407 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).