PDF malware analysis — malicious · 7e2227facce0900a

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.8 KB Authoring application: %title%

MD5: 5d4631b02f3d131c2048bf995d2afc8f SHA-1: fb7edd3d449d95082f0daa728c456e41fd9aec38 SHA-256: 7e2227facce0900ae1ce3826562e11af897c4bbb4dba32e4a8a18ceefee88f2f

146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The file is a PDF document detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962. It contains an embedded file, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The presence of an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

Heuristics 7

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
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
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-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x111A	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x11CC	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `42a1b5fcaf21f65bbd6423820891de759bbe223d3294dbb846dcda79fac3ea66`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x13E5	8302 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x23DB	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2487	77 bytes

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