Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a24839fc2f7c652…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB
MD5: e07da534e08c3b86cf0914eb1c753930 SHA-1: feddeb90d1d6f84c23d8df062d71855c7005c4a6 SHA-256: 8a24839fc2f7c652e1f869c34edd41a13170bcbe0e5a6dd9f2405b89a421b25a
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be a vector for exploits. Heuristics indicate the presence of risky executable scripts within the XFA form, and ClamAV detection confirms this as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836. The embedded script payload is likely responsible for exploiting the XFA vulnerability to achieve malicious execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
d034ff06a3dad322fa28477b436cd71f7bf6d97bbe0bf406ec23b33fbc55e8ae		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 688 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
c259a88fa7009eac9e74e159f6844afae066e629d097960200bbbe394cbffcee		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x448 149 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
156b28d1becd1b03c7ce89fb8037f0d57b81eea33f522529cba779ee68f43c20		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x528 378 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6ED 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
7f683d37d9222e426b70d0d1a606dfc919e37f3fcefa8b5726d7612e98ad850a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x7F8 41084 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8BE 68 bytes

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