Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 978130f2bf9c1a67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB
MD5: f79179f932a4b25f06432fb9acaf515c SHA-1: b757858c34583561978e7e06743f3cec5155f160 SHA-256: 978130f2bf9c1a67fa05895f12ecdccb39256e37e1c81b0745f35a6d99c95998
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, as malicious. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics indicate a high likelihood of exploit activity. The embedded script payload, although obfuscated, suggests the file is designed to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
e23e87a6b97e8c48f39d806cc2ba1b113ce59df33e227b186410f6ac3fcc7dbc		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42649 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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