Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 882ec7a246877016…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.3 KB
MD5: eca6239f249245f932b23f59f0f72d99 SHA-1: d6b6fe198eef6a8628131e4a0c3cb7bf361c077e SHA-256: 882ec7a24687701644b8c017e80ad8372bbc5d3af1d7642eb438ad56d716815f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF sample contains exploit shellcode that embeds a URL for downloading a secondary payload. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962, indicating a known exploit. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of the malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
  • PDF exploit shellcode contains an embedded download URL high PDF_JS_SHELLCODE_DOWNLOAD_URL
    Decoded PDF exploit shellcode contains a hardcoded http(s) URL — stored as little-endian %uXXXX Unicode escapes, or hex-encoded in a document metadata field (/CreationDate, /Title) and referenced from the decoded script. Reader exploit shellcode embeds the second-stage fetch URL this way and pulls it down with a urlmon/URLDownloadToFile-style download-and-execute (commodity downloader behaviour rather than a specific Acrobat CVE).
  • 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
  • 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://rhymingtravelocity.info/executed/aside_answers.php?iqcppb=1j:1m:1o:1i:1j&ypcsitud=31:1o:1n:31:1h:1o:1h:1g:1n:1l&grzubeg=1g&isyyp=gokio&duqlahq=cpukybb
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.2/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x27AF 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2861 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
cc9bf9b4bff960fcc875cced8773f18df40c06e7a9fe9a44ed7dafd435f6cc72		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2A7A 1866 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2ED2 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2F7E 77 bytes

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