Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 915aa88feff73d25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: 20ecb6ea3eb0ffdc2491f04bebadd5bc SHA-1: 36bd6b7f4169884ce8cf9a7a1936882345b2438c SHA-256: 915aa88feff73d25d2493db5c62a38e63e6a50be37d6960362840ee53aec9778
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including critical ClamAV detections for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830'. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the exploit and delivering a secondary payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' and 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' firings.

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/

Extracted artifacts 6

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
e5178ff183576ed22d14845ed933c8f51604938e743c74672762964b4bf5cd52		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 689 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
de913a067c1e5a47831f1eba0ee72b663ccd0a38727b4b1cba1f8d6e7ca84cda		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x449 165 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
b356f7349c287a5bb6946e426f7220e547a4e845353cdef50c4fc04d3bc46e44		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x539 419 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x727 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
91cc1ba3c3467c302c9f9c38e8225c4a19afaf51bfd2b7f2963923f4b3bc062b		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x832 40977 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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