Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a84e0dbe58b9a2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: 76991ea2f72b2873bfa73f6c1fb95548 SHA-1: 2dc855163b5de0f119e9a2c22bc793cd8d34429b SHA-256: 8a84e0dbe58b9a2ec4f85a3267ba875cc22d641f4ac35ba2f7267a4343f627ce
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings. ClamAV detections point to it being a dropped exploit, likely delivering a secondary malicious artifact. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
47b44a44192767b370f3fe7354644b7939202d267927a4df95652dc4d713b3ec
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 17964 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely