Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9735a15d9ff0da3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.8 KB
MD5: 4e6cfa7468e361ff52402eb06f52001c SHA-1: dc2b6f47c32976c8dfe703be814f920eb920eb85 SHA-256: 9735a15d9ff0da3a4f418f82b3b07a9ac39a982ab0ceef5a9d04e1650a0be6f6
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file utilizes XFA forms and contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings including ClamAV detections for Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded URL further supports the malicious intent.

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
92ceaf1f011d0ea7b1b803b5e373a5cf6c46bf685cc1abe6467ece474edad2f3
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x329 14467 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36809
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely