Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e758738873adc6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB
MD5: 4922100c21aa47d606d7d78ee9ce6a26 SHA-1: 3a43d719ecc924f5827777b909316bf3b5a5a903 SHA-256: 8e758738873adc6acb2c44c46cd7198dbd4a6cce3afc9162e6d8ab6e16e4e184
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with multiple signatures indicating it is a PDF exploit. The presence of an embedded script payload and XFA form further supports this classification. The embedded script is likely responsible for delivering the malicious payload, although its exact function cannot be determined due to its obfuscated nature.

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
30849d5f7743cf3b34bd85a40115ef963a2e9dec0d08dab89bc56cb3c1cf4616
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 95638 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely