Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90f120a8c99551e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: 171737358b46bfd7c5fc61be25a35db6 SHA-1: d81292ad91c82010650c471c4bbcb2447f79d0b7 SHA-256: 90f120a8c99551e1b83613a6c9fc34065c03ac351114ac2c6a79f15f2e062764
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and utilizes XFA forms, both flagged as malicious by heuristics. ClamAV detections indicate it's a known exploit, likely Pdf.Exploit.Agent. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain. The ML classifier strongly suggests maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36789
  • 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://www.x&#102;a.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000325.bin
8dcd55d47acedfcb4b6dfaf7a14c4e1af268ca9fb69a6b5ffcd4df3f6e93d340
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x325 18048 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely