Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 844353b011dd4ce4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB
MD5: 9d696f01962181b728e9a3d06f206b8b SHA-1: 3fd4a1223a08aff900967646c7718d6c81b40e83 SHA-256: 844353b011dd4ce4bf2b7013b760db26cb52a4bba9275e104f797b02bd7a5bf6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including embedded script payloads and ML classification. ClamAV detection confirms it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests a complex exploit designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URLs are related to Adobe XFA, which is a common vector for PDF exploits.

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 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
5469a8a92ee752408e488c9532fd6122dc0709ed670356c8c2588b81c24146c3		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 43367 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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