Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9784a0abb672b50f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB
MD5: 3f7067ad8f8893cfcf25d8c89a85c39d SHA-1: 4ecd9be5d534a3a8648959cc8acace2ed25a8fd7 SHA-256: 9784a0abb672b50fc068795ec07200e66698842f4532ed1d4cbf14c0dec5053c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary payload. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms, which are often targeted in PDF exploits.

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
628511318bdd5c716d47fea80785cc4ea182daa8d26a0eed1c825a1c0d2d1184		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42985 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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