Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fdcab583f52ea38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: 5e4c4ca280414149bb8b8334bd5acd71 SHA-1: 8475c41168d0b959147db003853400f04f4a175c SHA-256: 7fdcab583f52ea38dda7fbc0b191a4ae865e526bf3e1f25c5644105f13113cb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. It contains embedded objects and scripts, indicating an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF viewer. The embedded script payload is a critical finding. While the document body is not directly readable, the presence of XFA forms and embedded content strongly suggests a malicious exploit delivery mechanism.

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
65ba98aac090963d16a5ec7d85be78ea1407f024f2bcd0f13bfe9fe50e7dd90f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43032 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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