Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 930d2fb0fdd82b38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB
MD5: 7ce74710fd9748b7ba69bb3862aadd0f SHA-1: b43379d36e0d0f19208ca6d6702fe1add623b9cb SHA-256: 930d2fb0fdd82b388ac0407b58e6c908b3eee8083a3e32ec7dcf3fc3494bae68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830' strongly indicates this PDF is malicious and exploits a known vulnerability. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further supports this assessment. The extracted URLs are benign or unknown and do not contribute to the maliciousness assessment.

Heuristics 6

  • 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/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_file_obj0008.bin
03e8ee346656553fabde2527c92f4648d28ad02b5bec4445dcd05f634d213258
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42846 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely