Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78fbe8af21466e12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: bd3376ed6faaec75e13d395928b1d7c9 SHA-1: e0ca6a03cc8ea501572543763e1d48b8c2113198 SHA-256: 78fbe8af21466e125d4e9a297c9c047442459ca4c26701f3f9d7809ba466f129
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830) and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded script payload suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary payload upon opening. The benign URLs present are likely decoys or standard PDF schema references.

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
a7a4479d0805a5713be92dfb2b1b94ec6fba281e9fa7de95520de20750a96745		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42963 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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