Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9828530e920e5d74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB
MD5: cb1cc9a919369e45fe04928ae1f1f25b SHA-1: d6b936bb8ca2177032b48f554dd10eca9170c1cb SHA-256: 9828530e920e5d74e615ab2848afeb200b94bd47acbf658f3b16b26387f9ee6f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is identified as malicious by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836). It contains embedded files and scripts, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities within PDF documents. The presence of embedded script payloads and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest it's a dropper or exploit loader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
813932ea92c9da26d2ebeaa7568e8ef3ffdbcf1b00fed5b01a4558e256975198		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 683 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e1ab66598406464785df1b7c3e4218452dce39c816aca3e1a181e312cbe8a05c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x458 93 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
b748b60c16b68084fb3b66c25dd3ce7d300c1a177b9eebf5afc3a9555f87030e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x500 441 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x704 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
60b8140777f874f7f460fceb1426710b7dcab25a81f8fac93cb43af797750bca		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x8D6 41171 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA9F3 147 bytes

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