Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b0c68a539bddc83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: 5dd6ddc828e4cfe062ed61db3848e13e SHA-1: 1dc38277e0a569ad13974bfc933229dba0c082c8 SHA-256: 7b0c68a539bddc83ba08bf2f28b3e90a6200da724582f87b5f3efe3ed4b2cc43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. Static analysis revealed embedded content, including a script payload within a PDF stream, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code. The embedded script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, which is a common technique for PDF-based malware delivery.

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
13508aa772c3dbc2d32a8b7d24a856f4b27272ac456a655026e0a11e726ad044
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42636 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely