Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d5e4b96f2e72671…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB
MD5: 3f27ace309dd15561818947111cf05a0 SHA-1: 6cb88ea4376739c74fdd6042664b312f68c93b1a SHA-256: 8d5e4b96f2e72671387aef2d1e38017194c3be9ad978b9fe726b19015638817a
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and utilizes XFA forms, which are known vectors for exploitation. ClamAV detections indicate it is a known exploit targeting PDF documents. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, though its exact functionality is obscured by the PDF structure.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://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_pdf_script_00000246.bin
4e57484998fa97a1c57e76e824073126f4b9b8dc2f1383e3f1cc5e6b6bd175cb
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 95096 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely