Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92fa3f9890eee6e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB
MD5: 109f7e77bc54ae84cf5e18ad4dc47b63 SHA-1: 308fa797a46cb8c61a633661e75d660b4e60f85c SHA-256: 92fa3f9890eee6e1227fa2ad15c363fb735929eef1a4902a6351ae0922fe83aa
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple high-severity heuristics and ClamAV detections. The embedded script is likely responsible for dropping a secondary malicious artifact, as suggested by the 'EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV' heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000329.bin
aa2edfec0879754f55036b703c4495cbfc0b6dfb244982b40e9da6f90e40fb0e
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 18002 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely