Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9671d801a8d7a3b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: c10ae255d99c07509ef7e5658937e249 SHA-1: 9df2d97513a354941cc460cfe8d9e3474a1712e0 SHA-256: 9671d801a8d7a3b6f5f7b88fb51607cd93a3f0e2269bf197c2a9a15e7ffcb640
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. The presence of XFA forms and AcroForm buttons with action triggers suggests an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The ML classifier output of 0.999296 indicates a very high likelihood of malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
d99e92df28a52eed1048a19354f318b4f60fb201224d9f967ff3a4381a4a347d
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1432 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).