Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ec8d90821a95b70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 928ac262ec1b1508603454f3c5d5e758 SHA-1: 1923e64599b06439bbcad013975cffcae557312b SHA-256: 8ec8d90821a95b70b20ffa71aa696266b2efb85ddd294d93b6e30b616286d9e1
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1555 Credentials from Password Stores T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Dropper.Agent-5303129-0. Static analysis revealed an embedded file, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about the lure. The presence of an embedded file and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is a dropper.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-5303129-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-5303129-0
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
f673351f8d98355d026591de1cf859c9a2ff72da9f4c5cae60637b75f9e57d65
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x7C 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).