Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ade8089cab5c430…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB
MD5: 9565f7b671b6607d7631da55ccf9d155 SHA-1: 5fea48a62b7b71466829e63b42963593d7bf4bf9 SHA-256: 9ade8089cab5c4307af878d7f960c89c5ebf576e4408effa355c4e2dca5538ce
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious PDF T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and an embedded script payload, which is a common technique for delivering exploits. ClamAV detections indicate this is a known exploit targeting PDF documents. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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.
  • 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_pdf_script_0000023e.bin
1291c1e00b42abfef8d21ca01a9aa63176e22bf09c87f1f7fa29cf9cbac6ddb8
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23E 80301 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36769
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely