Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73f910ff024c48f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB
MD5: 6c527b60a20f61e12de4319286816c19 SHA-1: 8ee0e18d111707e76e900534adf53ff1746399a0 SHA-256: 73f910ff024c48f9e297ba9774824c283ccd015642ce22d8ad2775a3fe2ba0d0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded XFA form content and a high-confidence ML classifier flagged it as malicious. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The embedded JavaScript appears to be obfuscated but is designed to execute, likely to download and run a secondary payload, which is a common exploit technique for PDF files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000264.bin
ad4e30b6a36cadd8ac2f1aa71d5c2d5f06e2d833f1ea019aa27db5eff837e86a
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x264 3838 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely