Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a5fa11d6af88f43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: de9694ae890d28929aff2a0da4ffc627 SHA-1: 208f02cdd5e2ca81f3a6b6e8f18de2f706edebb8 SHA-256: 7a5fa11d6af88f43ab8eb10754cd7912b8f2ed25e6bb04a208699a26b79f2829
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded content and triggers heuristics indicating an embedded script payload and a known exploit (ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830). The ML classifier also flagged it as highly malicious. While the document body is heavily obfuscated and difficult to interpret for user-facing intent, the presence of embedded artifacts and exploit signatures strongly suggests it's designed to deliver a secondary malicious payload. No specific family could be confidently identified.

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 script payload in PDF stream medium 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 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 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
36417697e5cb15238c6da009ad097770fc6c94a85ab34a7a25705a5a24717a5c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43218 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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