Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8352745bded2118f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: eb1bfd979ffe576401d877782582573a SHA-1: eafffa7d15b06e09deb057596ec145307726fbf9 SHA-256: 8352745bded2118f92b78d14aad2088c5bd6f56b68b76a9fb1bcf41139ea38a0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains embedded script content and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830'. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script, though obfuscated, likely attempts to download and execute a secondary payload, which is a common attack pattern for this type of exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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 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 script payload in PDF stream low 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 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
af501e6661045fef848f4b6e7d3c980d1b125e048059bc3e94a3506f124c88d9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42901 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely