Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f7e1f6a32359b0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB
MD5: ca53fa52f19f90faf26dc2cf9b49dfdd SHA-1: 6d6aaadc9ee83a07d8ed314e88bc6043e957d9a0 SHA-256: 8f7e1f6a32359b0bd6d5fcbacf52bcb6a71a9103dfd5dbb137adf272b9f5d9ca
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836'. The presence of embedded script payloads and embedded files strongly suggests that this PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and deliver a secondary malicious payload. The ML classifier output further reinforces the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • 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
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
60eeb820c0eb1d517426a7e23c5583eea95760b9e9c6a0255b36c4963c8c93df
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 691 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x460 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
264a920ff7d54ecd28bc59bdd362d2a5273a38def27ae545eadbf9bcf17b35d9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x508 530 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x765 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
3a4d7c61a88aa3a3d7e9f685306265eeabd04e66b76909dd520e253f2ea8b6cf
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x937 40841 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA90A 147 bytes