Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98da7979912a35b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: c23f3468f00a1e9ab751580a3d0c3f64 SHA-1: 7baed784889fbc1d6846e16c115de82d031a7476 SHA-256: 98da7979912a35b5de5188ce22b3e118d465bd05fd805ecb85f14268394474bc
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The embedded script likely attempts to exploit a vulnerability within the PDF reader to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements and embedded files further supports the exploitation vector.

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
39d021e32e2ba47b2ae577868788612a3d1e093e2c5c3b0b850debe034bba7f8		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42742 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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