Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9902e003386b9669…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB
MD5: e052d80e2edb3f2bcc5d86be1a76d17c SHA-1: f1eb3bcc23cdd5e0ffbeb05ac323c8c254743f5f SHA-256: 9902e003386b96694142620ba0aa4cc9689e0b295f65c07f369c44bbdd37eee9
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating it contains a malicious exploit. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV' heuristics suggest that an embedded script or artifact is responsible for the malicious behavior. The primary detection signature is 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830'.

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
65f78d9a30bc746f68185412974ae588bf557432e9e5349a0f95888f160e27b1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 42808 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36830
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely