Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96bab158b68651d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB
MD5: 713832370864b6d6665cb1c7697802ff SHA-1: c0c36410abe800eac15aec853ebbe66d95ff961a SHA-256: 96bab158b68651d2bfa6af902531fe027ea73e7c670f9837ff7a8ad05b5c01ef
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers critical heuristics related to PDF exploits and embedded artifacts. ClamAV detections indicate it is a known exploit targeting PDF viewers. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, leading to the overall malicious nature of the document.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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://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_00000246.bin
2821657bb57e19626f80b1b9cc212d73711ccb05e92f28de059b8fdc9cca808f
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x246 95638 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely