Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94ddf1bbf8568539…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB
MD5: 77dc2f3f9bbf5a37f2c03dca559a1bea SHA-1: a3700ff6c3cd2f079e88e819f2ec3004e012e8f4 SHA-256: 94ddf1bbf8568539a6e4e0a31a817e1e14a85ffaf4cccb53e302fc0b44068ae1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains a risky executable script within an XFA form, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings including ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830'. This script is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded nature of the script and the specific ClamAV signature suggest a targeted exploit.

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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

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
91a3d3bd5f8031cd2c4f22ce1b6cf1cca2bc6c931365c7a5636f256f126481e5		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x14D 687 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
97314d9231379623057a8a77eeb79f9354bacffa50753a0f63b9e87e8d67dbf2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x447 186 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
da4a2dd57c5b920209f6d00f9fd1899f4dec5c501efaa50c271d42eb28c3d635		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x54C 392 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d2f06f3fc6900856fe613a64a561919c8454dcbe0fdf238fb8b43e07016955ea		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x71F 190 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
a45c6b6c3ea79758db1ba8640d32c3021ecd3b9e4b002ec113e511f0fa71e5fd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x82A 41051 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA8CF 68 bytes

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