Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79202e81ac9132dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB
MD5: ae549dd633b347f58ba9a0dcc583ed8a SHA-1: d58b2981a016960352524e159c4f90c2ffb7ffbf SHA-256: 79202e81ac9132ddbb94453695e2f461c04dd1a2b4b741273dc508750819bf90
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830) and an ML classifier. It contains embedded script content and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and execute a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts points towards exploitation for client execution.

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/xci/1.0/
    • 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
6d9e1e0b7b6a9280fa3e286a249e2be82c77062ecbae53620d3709aa6f654df7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42265 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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