Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f6ce95c38f9d9ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB
MD5: 5ce732be104e631e17d0467ced5abdf0 SHA-1: c312c5adc3f37af5117b23e528ca433b740cb535 SHA-256: 7f6ce95c38f9d9ce3e3008b5dedb7fec7f6be506b40246353d23ed5c13a10e82
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. ClamAV detections (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809) confirm its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, contributing to the overall attack. The XFA form structure is also noted.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
20a161c9ea3123835af5ec929fee9a77c3ab52ec1c98dac17297921a24648812
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14216 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely