Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 925095a004c8d158…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB
MD5: 3c2135b80a3bae35694be05f7121628b SHA-1: 60045701a5749b2cbc41160dd83ecffb1db94188 SHA-256: 925095a004c8d1588394e6cbe8b1df334f2d69ffa7e63bb3003b6c95731421b7
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers XFA form heuristics, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the exploit, although its specific actions are not fully discernible from the provided excerpt.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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_0000026a.bin
4cbd9836d07f448d04d3dfe587c5c46c65aa522d8c11825209ede19b7109a788
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x26A 113313 bytes