Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8df90ab32c7b8769…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB
MD5: d67817bbe9e1f8c1be28733b4bf1621d SHA-1: 1962ec4fbf4759275b273ce2929df84b14525888 SHA-256: 8df90ab32c7b8769002ce89a5a71cc5fa1bb25578dd8a26259278c2c1690860f
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded XFA forms which are known to be vulnerable to script execution. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of risky executable scripts within these forms. ClamAV detection confirms this as a malicious PDF exploit, specifically 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830'. The embedded script likely attempts to exploit a vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload.

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-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/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
dc2218c01fd0e069127756ce711dfd75a4a6dccddd2072891b934575d3950368		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 689 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
97314d9231379623057a8a77eeb79f9354bacffa50753a0f63b9e87e8d67dbf2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x449 186 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
f469b138463c36e77166e9948c7f1e19cf90a8960d9f44a5f6ae319547fda59c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x54E 387 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x71C 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
091c8b85a961fdc88ea050bed99a6ee46cd4fcfbb181dd1611d799dad9ba9fc2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x827 41373 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xAA0E 68 bytes

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