Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c807a1b48c0e673…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.8 KB Created: 2011-09-08 05:03:17 Authoring application: FPDF 1.6
MD5: 3438bb9a09c7d43854f85daa1b22b533 SHA-1: 7e268ed0b7ddc6f1d540cb9fc50e4f8445bc6678 SHA-256: 9c807a1b48c0e6735c0c8f535fb424d2187bef804aba57496ebd278e176b443c
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874. The presence of an XFA form and an AcroForm button with an action trigger suggests an attempt to exploit a PDF vulnerability. An embedded, decompressed PDF stream was also identified as a suspicious artifact, likely containing the exploit code or payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36874
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off000008ed.bin
93dcbdbaf3015530d7b0f0f315387c6916051bd489572568369ba3a5d2a6c790
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8ED 1469 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).