Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bc317f304b9a186…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 738c59089c158f2180c76a3b74d18e00 SHA-1: d050ea7cf558dd4e07484596c3402941f0e46943 SHA-256: 7bc317f304b9a18648f612bd5577400450af8205b46dcee5c200b5bb2a9ca1a7
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate this PDF is malicious, likely exploiting a known vulnerability. The presence of XFA form elements and an AcroForm button with an action trigger are common indicators of exploit-laden PDFs. The embedded artifact suggests a potential secondary payload, though its contents are not directly analyzed here.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
dc66f0b0485730d89a0387ec38790990e193eea425fb43d1b4c13c982b40493c
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1442 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).