PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9e44bdc8d1633d98

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB

MD5: 09da70c1973e99a866b9adabac8bed8a SHA-1: 1f867498577f2793c6216c1275ff319a11cc9fed SHA-256: 9e44bdc8d1633d9842318f544c1b752aca883debef2f7722b6db832f14f5596f

114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection and high ML classifier score strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON heuristics suggest the document contains an embedded exploit or action trigger. The presence of an embedded URL, though benign in reputation, is suspicious in this context. The embedded files are likely components of the exploit or payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
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
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
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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x2D2C	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2DDE	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `f44bf07a5e766e1ab751c881e0c803396c26566487c8d16ae18e3f70aa11a14f`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2FF7	1931 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x3471	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x351D	77 bytes

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